Manchurian Books

He turned his other cheek to me.
"'It 'it," he said."'It 'it. I'LL forgive you."
I felt I had never encountered a more detestable way of evading a
licking. I shoved him against the wall and left him there, forgiving me,
and went back into the house.
"You better not speak to your cousins, George," said my aunt, "till
you're in a better state of mind."
I became an outcast forthwith. At supper that night a gloomy silence was
broken by my cousin saying,
"'E 'it me for telling you, and I turned the other cheek, muvver."
"'E's got the evil one be'ind 'im now, a ridin' on 'is back," said my
aunt, to the grave discomfort of the eldest girl, who sat beside me.
After supper my uncle, in a few ill-chosen words, prayed me to repent
before I slept.
"Suppose you was took in your sleep, George," he said; "where'd you
be then? You jest think of that me boy." By this time I was thoroughly
miserable and frightened, and this suggestion unnerved me dreadfully but
I kept up an impenitent front. "To wake in 'ell," said Uncle Nicodemus,
in gentle tones.


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