there, how much misery I could have saved her from! But I couldn't: I had
the rheumatiz. And I had to give up, and go home disappointed, but
carryin' this thought home with me on my tower,--that I had done my duty
by our sweet Cicely, and could do no more.

As I said, he promised firm to give up drinking. But, good land! what
could you expect from that chin? That chin couldn't stand temptation if it
came in his way. At the same time, his love for Cicely was such, and his
good heart and his natural gentlemanly intuitions was such, that, if he
could have been kep' out of the way of temptation, he would have been all
right.

If there hadn't been drinking-saloons right in front of that chin, if it
could have walked along the road without runnin' right into 'em, it would
have got along. That chin, and them waverin'-lookin', amiable lips,
wouldn't have stirred a step out of their ways to get ruined and
disgraced: they wouldn't have took the trouble to.

And for a year or so he and the chin kep' out of the way of temptation, or
ruther temptation kep' out of their way; and Cicely was happy,--radiently
happy, as only such a nature as hern can be. Her face looked like a
mornin' in June, it wus so bright, and glowing with joy and happy love.

I visited her, stayed 3 days and 2 nights with her; and I almost forgot to
forebode about the lower part of his face, I found 'em so happy and
prosperous and likely.

Paul wus very rich. He wus the only child: and his pa left 2 thirds of his
property to him, and the other third to his ma, which wus more than she
could ever use while she wus alive; and at her death it wus to go to Paul