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’”Have you been to the river?’”

”When had he so greatly changed? Or was it that he had not changed, but that her eyes had been opened through the pain he had caused her?”

’”He wouldn’t never of left me,” said Elizabeth, ”but he died.”’

’"Well," she said helplessly, after a long pause,
"good-bye."
"Good-bye?" You ain't going away, is you?"
"Oh, no," she said, in confusion.
"Well," he said, and smiled and bowed, "good day."
"Yes," she said, "good day."’

”’I guess it takes a holy man to make a girl a real whore.’”

”’But I can’t help it if you done things that you’s ashamed of, Reverend.’”

”This was not belief but unbelief, not humility but pride: there worked in the heart of such a one the same desire that had hurled the son of the morning from Heaven to the depths of Hell, the desire to overturn the appointed times of God, and to wrest from Him who held all power in His hands powers not meet for men.”

”—I opened my mouth to the Lord that day and Hell won’t make me change my mind.”

”And the hands of death caressed her shoulders, the voice whispered and whispered in her ear: ’God's got your number, knows where you live, death's got a warrant out for you.’”

”I know the Lord ain’t as hard as Daddy”