You've been as good as you could be to me. You have done your duty by me, if any one ever could."
"Well, I am mighty glad you realise that, so's ef you go away an' fall into sinful ways you can't lay none of it to my bringin'-up."
"I feel somehow as if I would like to have a go with sin some time, to see what it is like."
"Well, I lay you'll be satisfied before you've been in Cincinnaty long, for ef there ever was livin' hells on airth, it's them big cities."
"Oh, I have got faith to believe that Fred ain't a-goin' to do nothin' wrong," said Eliphalet.
"Nobody don't know what nobody's a-goin' to do under temptation sich as is layin' in wait fur young men in the city, but I'm shore I've done my best to train you right, even ef I have made some mistakes in my poor weak way an' manner."
"If I do fall into sinful ways, Aunt Hester, I shall never blame you or your training for it."
"But you ain't a-goin' to do it, Fred; you ain't a-goin' to fall into no evil ways."
