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Mary Jane Wilks Quotes

Nine of the best book quotes from Mary Jane Wilks
01
“Mary Jane was red-headed, but that don’ t make no difference, she was most awful beautiful, and her face and her eyes was all lit up like glory, she was so glad her uncles was come.”
Source: Chapter 29, Paragraph 5
02
“I don’t care whether ‘twas little or whether ‘twas big; he’s here in our house and a stranger, and it wasn’t good of you to say it. If you was in his place it would make you feel ashamed; and so you oughtn’t to say a thing to another person that will make them feel ashamed.”
Source: Chapter 30, Paragraph 70
03
“Them poor things was that glad and happy it made my heart ache to see them getting fooled and lied to so,”
Source: Chapter 31, Paragraph 11
04
“Miss Mary Jane, you can’t a-bear to see people in trouble, and I can’t—most always. Tell me about it.”
Source: Chapter 32, Paragraph 2
05
“I got to tell the truth, and you want to brace up, Miss Mary, because it’s a bad kind, and going to be hard to take, but there ain’t no help for it. These uncles of yourn ain’t no uncles at all; they’re a couple of frauds—regular dead-beats.”
Source: Chapter 32, Paragraph 14
06
“Oh, stop blaming yourself—it’s too bad to do it, and I won’t allow it—you couldn’t help it; it wasn’t your fault. Where did you hide it?”
Source: Chapter 32, Paragraph 45
07
“Good-bye. I’m going to do everything just as you’ve told me; and if I don’t ever see you again, I sha’n’t ever forget you and I’ll think of you a many and a many a time, and I’ll pray for you, too!“—and she was gone.”
Source: Chapter 32, Paragraph 51
08
“Pray for me! I reckoned if she knowed me she’d take a job that was more nearer her size. But I bet she done it, just the same—she was just that kind. She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion—there warn’t no back-down to her, I judge.”
Source: Chapter 32, Paragraph 52
09
“I hain’t ever seen her since that time that I see her go out of that door; no, I hain’t ever seen her since, but I reckon I’ve thought of her a many and a many a million times, and of her saying she would pray for me; and if ever I’d a thought it would do any good for me to pray for her, blamed if I wouldn’t a done it or bust.”
Source: Chapter 32, Paragraph 52
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