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selfishness. You could think to come all the way over here from
Jackson's Island in the night to laugh at our troubles, and you could
think to fool me with a lie about a dream; but you couldn't ever think
to pity us and save us from sorrow."
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Auntie, I know now it was mean, but I didn't mean to be mean. I
didn't, honest. And besides, I didn't come over here to laugh at you
that night."
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What did you come for, then?"
"It was to tell you not to be uneasy about us, because we hadn't got
drownded."
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Tom, Tom, I would be the thankfullest soul in this world if I could
believe you ever had as good a thought as that, but you know you never
did--and I know it, Tom."
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Indeed and 'deed I did, auntie--I wish I may never stir if I didn't."
Oh, Tom, don't lie--don't do it. It only makes things a hundred times
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worse."
"It ain't a lie, auntie; it's the truth. I wanted to keep you from
grieving--that was all that made me come."
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