ApThe day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light out of the northeast which, instead of dissolving into moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil. My bed and another one can have my place at the table too. I says no thank you I have all the women I can You’d get right up out of your grave you know you would. But I’ll be gone soon and then you can take a wife but you’ll never find a woman who is worthy of you and I says yes I could. Like I say if I was to get married you’d go up like a balloon and you know it and she says I want you to be happy to have a family of your own not to slave your life away for us. I’m a man, I can stand it, it’s my own flesh and blood and I’d like to see the color of the man’s eyes that would speak disrespectful of any woman that was my friend it’s these dam good women that do it I’d like to see the good, church-going woman that’s half as square as Lorraine, whore or no whore. I’ve too much respect for anybody to do that. If it was my own daughter now it would be different, because she wouldn’t have time to she’d have to work some to feed a few invalids and idiots and niggers, because how could I have the face to bring anybody there. I’ve done what I could a man that can live as long as I have and not know when to quit is a fool. Dime in the county it was no skin off my back.
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