14/23 She supposes it _now_, like enough. If there was any way, shape or manner you could get out of marrying me, why of course I wouldn't let you. "It's the only way fair to us both." "Putting it that way, now!" said Sim Gage, wisely, "putting it _that_ way, I'm here to say I ain't a-scared to do _nothing_ that's best fer you. And I want to say right now and here, I didn't mean no harm to you. I swear, neither Wid nor me ever did dream that a woman like you'd come out here--I never knew such a woman as you was in the whole _world_. |