show it, ain't
certainly no braver than to say, oh, oh, how bad you hurt me, please
don't hurt me mister. It just certainly seems to me, like many people
think themselves so game just to stand what we all of us always just
got to be standing, and everybody stands it, and we don't certainly
none of us like it, and yet we don't ever most of us think we are so
much being game, just because we got to stand it."

"I know what you mean now by what you are saying to me now Jeff
Campbell. You make a fuss now to me, because I certainly just have
stopped standing everything you like to be always doing so cruel to
me. But that's just the way always with you Jeff Campbell, if you want
to know it. You ain't got no kind of right feeling for all I always
been forgiving to you." "I said it once for fun, Melanctha, but now I
certainly do mean it, you think you got a right to go where you got
no business, and you say, I am so brave nothing can hurt me, and then
something, like always, it happens to hurt you, and you show your hurt
always so everybody can see it, and you say, I am so brave nothing did
hurt me except he certainly didn't have any right to, and see how
bad I suffer, but you never hear me make a holler, though certainly
anybody got any feeling, to see me suffer, would certainly never touch
me except to take good care of me. Sometimes I certainly don't rightly
see Melanctha, how much more game that is than just the ordinary kind
of holler." "No, Jeff Campbell, and made the way you is you certainly
ain't likely ever to be much more understanding." "No, Melanctha, nor
you neither. You think always, you are the only one who ever can do
any way to really suffer." "Well, and ain't I certainly always been
the only person knows how to bear it. No, Jeff Campbell, I certainly
be glad to love anybody really worthy, but I made so, I never seem
to be able in this world to find him." "No, and your kind of way of
thinking, you certainly Melanctha never going to any way be able ever
to be finding of him. Can't you understand Melanctha, ever, how no man
certainly ever really can hold your love for long times together.
You certainly Melanctha, you ain't got down deep loyal feeling, true
inside you, and when you ain't just that moment quick with feeling,
then you certainly ain't ever got anything more there to keep you.
You see Melanctha, it certainly is this way with you, it is, that
you ain't ever got any way to remember right what you been