But that's always the way Melanctha is just doing
Sam, the way I been telling to you. She always is being just so good
to everybody and nobody ever there to thank her for it. I never did
see nobody ever Sam, have such bad luck, seems to me always with them,
like that poor Melanctha always has it, and she always so good with
it, and never no murmur in her, and never no complaining from her, and
just never saying nothing with it. You be real good to her Sam, now
you hear me, now you and me is married right together. He certainly
was an awful black man to her Sam, that father she had, acting always
just like a brute to her and she so game and never to tell anybody how
it hurt her. And she so sweet and good always to do anything anybody
ever can be wanting. I don't see Sam how some men can be to act so
awful. I told you Sam, how once Melanctha broke her arm bad and she
was so sick and it hurt her awful and he never would let no doctor
come near to her and he do some things so awful to her, she don't
never want to tell nobody how bad he hurt her. That's just the way Sam
with Melanctha always, you never can know how bad it is, it hurts
her. You hear me Sam, you always be real good to her now you and me is
married right to each other."
And so Rose and Sam Johnson were regularly married, and Rose sat at
home and bragged to all her friends how nice it was to be married
really to a husband.
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