Chapter 27

At this time Bessie was crying irritably, though she firmly believed in her view of the matter, and she felt opening the spam a great relief at the moment, so she began by word and deed to urge her uncle not to sit anymore on the wet grass and then pushed him hard for he was very inflexible, and, as he put it, "all shook," then that she persuaded him of her idea with her repeating again and again in the same words, "He is not dead now; it was only a bad omen and so forth."

Nathan shook his head and tried to be convinced; with a firm belief in his heart for it all, and he seemed so ill on his return home with Bessie (for she would not permit him to go about his day's work), that his wife suspected him of a cold, and he was weary and indifferent to life and was glad to fall into bed to relieve himself of the stress he afflicted and sickened his real body, and neither Bessie nor he spoke of the letter again, even to each other, for several days; And Bessie found ways to stop Mark