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
Seems to me like Jeff Campbell, I never
could feel so like a man was low and to be scorning of him, like that
day in the summer, when you threw me off just because you got one of
those fits of your remembering. No, Jeff Campbell, its real feeling
every moment when its needed, that certainly does seem to me like real
remembering. And that way, certainly, you don't never know nothing
like what should be right Jeff Campbell. No Jeff, it's me that always
certainly has had to bear it with you. It's always me that certainly
has had to suffer, while you go home to remember. No you certainly
ain't got no sense yet Jeff, what you need to make you really feeling.
No, it certainly is me Jeff Campbell, that always has got to be
remembering for us both, always. That's what's the true way with us
Jeff Campbell, if you want to know what it is I am always thinking."
"You is certainly real modest Melanctha, when you do this kind of
talking, you sure is Melanctha," said Jeff Campbell laughing. "I
think sometimes Melanctha I am certainly awful conceited, when I think
sometimes I am all out doors, and I think I certainly am so bright,
and better than most everybody I ever got anything now to do with, but
when I hear you talk this way Melanctha, I certainly do think I am a
real modest kind of fellow." "Modest!" said Melanctha, angry, "Modest,
that certainly is a queer thing for you Jeff to be calling yourself
even when you are laughing." "Well it certainly does depend a whole
lot what you are thinking with," said Jeff Campbell. "I never did use
to think I was so much on being real modest Melanctha, but now I know
really I am, when I hear you talking. I see all the time there are
many people living just as good as I am, though they are a little
different to me. Now with you Melanctha if I understand you right what
you are talking, you don't think that way of no other one that you are
ever knowing." "I certainly could be real modest too, Jeff Campbell,"
said Melanctha, "If I could meet somebody once I could keep right
on respecting when I got so I was really knowing with them. But I
certainly never met anybody like that yet, Jeff Campbell, if you want
to know it." "No, Melanctha, and with the way you got of thinking,
it certainly don't look like as if you ever will Melanctha, with your
never remembering anything only what you just then are feeling in you,
and you not understanding what any one else is ever feeling, if they
don't holler just the way you are doing. No Melanctha, I certainly
don't see any ways you are likely ever to meet one, so good as you are
always thinking you be." "No, Jeff Campbell, it certainly ain't
that way with me at all the way you say it. It's because I am always
knowing what it is I am wanting, when I get it. I certainly don't
never have to wait till I have it, and then throw away what I got in
me, and then come back and say, that's a mistake I just been making,
it ain't that never at all like I understood it, I want to have, bad,
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