" And he hastened to introduce me
to the Senator who entered. And then he bid me a hasty adoo, but cordial
and polite, and withdrew himself.
V
"HE WUZ DRETFUL POLITE"
I felt glad to have this Senator do Serepta's errents, but I didn't like
his looks. My land! talk about Serepta Pester bein' disagreeable, he wuz as
disagreeable as she any day. He wuz kinder tall and looked out of his eyes
and wore a vest. He wuz some bald-headed, and wore a large smile all the
while, it looked like a boughten one that didn't fit him, but I won't say
it wuz. I presoom he'll be known by this description. But his baldness
didn't look to me like Josiah Allen's baldness, and he didn't have the
noble linement of the President, no indeed. He wuz dretful polite, good
land! politeness is no name for it, but I don't like to see anybody too
good. He drawed a chair up for me and himself and asked me:
If he should have the inexpressible honor and delightful joy of aiding me
in any way, if so to command him to do it or words to that effect. I can't
put down his second-hand smiles and genteel looks and don't want to if I
could.
But tacklin' hard jobs as I always tackle 'em, I sot down calm in front
of him with my umbrell on my lap and told him all of Serepta's errents,
and how I had brought 'em from Jonesville on my tower. I told over all her
sufferin's and wrongs from the Rings and from not havin' her rights, and
all her sister's Azuba Clapsaddle's, and her Aunt Cassandra Keeler's, and
Hulda and Drusilly's and Abagail Flanderses injustices and sufferin's.
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