Three Lives: Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle LenaStein, Gertrude
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Three Lives: Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena
Stein, Gertrude
Working class women -- Fiction
"I know what you mean now by what you are saying to me now Jeff
Campbell. You make a fuss now to me, because I certainly just have
stopped standing everything you like to be always doing so cruel to
me. But that's just the way always with you Jeff Campbell, if you want
to know it. You ain't got no kind of right feeling for all I always
been forgiving to you." "I said it once for fun, Melanctha, but now I
certainly do mean it, you think you got a right to go where you got
no business, and you say, I am so brave nothing can hurt me, and then
something, like always, it happens to hurt you, and you show your hurt
always so everybody can see it, and you say, I am so brave nothing did
hurt me except he certainly didn't have any right to, and see how
bad I suffer, but you never hear me make a holler, though certainly
anybody got any feeling, to see me suffer, would certainly never touch
me except to take good care of me. Sometimes I certainly don't rightly
see Melanctha, how much more game that is than just the ordinary kind
of holler." "No, Jeff Campbell, and made the way you is you certainly
ain't likely ever to be much more understanding." "No, Melanctha, nor
you neither. You think always, you are the only one who ever can do
any way to really suffer." "Well, and ain't I certainly always been
the only person knows how to bear it. No, Jeff Campbell, I certainly
be glad to love anybody really worthy, but I made so, I never seem
to be able in this world to find him." "No, and your kind of way of
thinking, you certainly Melanctha never going to any way be able ever
to be finding of him. Can't you understand Melanctha, ever, how no man
certainly ever really can hold your love for long times together.
You certainly Melanctha, you ain't got down deep loyal feeling, true
inside you, and when you ain't just that moment quick with feeling,
then you certainly ain't ever got anything more there to keep you.
You see Melanctha, it certainly is this way with you, it is, that
you ain't ever got any way to remember right what you been doing, or
anybody else that has been feeling with you. You certainly Melanctha,
never can remember right, when it comes what you have done and what
you think happens to you." "It certainly is all easy for you Jeff
Campbell to be talking. You remember right, because you don't remember
nothing till you get home with your thinking everything all over, but
I certainly don't think much ever of that kind of way of remembering
right, Jeff Campbell. I certainly do call it remembering right Jeff
Campbell, to remember right just when it happens to you, so you have a
right kind of feeling not to act the way you always been doing to me,
and then you go home Jeff Campbell, and you begin with your thinking,
and then it certainly is very easy for you to be good and forgiving
with it. No, that ain't to me, the way of remembering Jeff Campbell,
not as I can see it not to make people always suffer, waiting for you
certainly to get to do it.
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