I just tried
to go faster!
"Ain't no little gal gonna stop me! Dammit! I'm gonna set up
my still come the devil to my doorstep! And if the Law comes
bustin' it up, I'll know exactly who turned me in! Woman, you get
on to the house and see who all else's up there. I swear to God!
Don't nothin' ever go right for me! Get!"
"I'm going, Ward. I'm going. Miss Nannie must've come to set
with poor Aunt Dink."
"Poor Aunt Dink! Poor Aunt Dink! That's all I hear! When's
that old blind bitch ever gonna die?"
"Ward, she's my aunt! She raised me from a baby!"
"Yeah, yeah! From a bastard baby. You've told me ten times
how your ma died a-birthin' you and didn't nobody want you, so
Miss Dink and her old man taken you and raised you. Then, fool
me, I come along and married you! My pa told me I'd rue the day.
He said I ought to marry me a big rawboned gal-one that could
plow a mule and do a day's work in the field. Pa was a blame fool
about lots of things, but he sure know'd women. He said these
little stringy ones like you ain't good for a confounded thing
but birthin' young'uns, and he was sure right.
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