The Grinder Papers — page 211: what you’re looking at

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hb THE GRINDER PAPERS, NUMBER TWENTY-FIVE. CHARITY DISCOVERS MORE INIQUITY, I never had no aynomosity agin Dorinda Sniffin. _I’d scorn it. Let them hev feelin’s 0’ that natur’ that ain’t above it, and don’t allude it to me. Ef she says I had any inclination fur tu-avail myself o’ the intentions o’ Mandy’s pa, I won’t tell her she lies, only that she’s mistook. But ef she ain’t no more of a lady than tu say how't I meant ‘‘tu catch him,” I’m obligated asa rectangular person and a member tu tell her that it’s a falsehood. Me that had ruther be a vestal virgin than a Benedictine any day. | Hevin’ writ so much for the public o’ late, I feel myself quite fetched before the world and called upon tu defend myself from such objurations. Otherwise I’d retire with the usual dignitude o’ my character, without a word. . Seein’ as things 1s as they be, though, I feel obligated tu state the reasons why I wouldn't hev Mandy’s pa fur nothin’ the Garden o’ Eden couldn't offer, let alone a miserable muddy world o’ woe. -Fustly: He zs Mandy's pa; and bein’, I feel tu regret that Mandy is sure tu turn out awful. I shouldn’t like folks tu allude her eend tu her step-ma, as they d be sure tu.