Chapter 20
THE IMPORTANCE OF PROOF
"Oh, Aunt Pearly Gates, life is very hard right now! It isn't that it is so hard for me. I'm getting on well enough, except, of course, my aunts are as cold as ever to me—I reckon they always will be that. It's because they don't believe I'm their kin. I'm sure I don't want to be, and if I could be of Grandfather's blood and Uncle Spot's, I'd be perfectly willing to forego the honor of being even their poor kin.
"It's Uncle Spot and Grandfather that are having such a hard time. You see poor Uncle Spot has fallen head over heels in love with Betsy Bolling, and Grandfather and Mr. Bolling are having a law suit, and although Betsy is just crazy about Uncle Spot she won't have him because Grandfather is so opposed, and then she is so mortified at the way her own father is behaving. For my part, I believe Mr. Bolling is losing his mind."
"He ain't never had none to lose, Beck baby, ain't ol' Rolfe Bolling. He ain't never had no min' an' no manners an' what heart he may er
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