time, to stand it, but they are not so
much wiser after all, all the others just because they know too how to
bear it.

Passionate natures who have always made themselves, to suffer, that is
all the kind of people who have emotions that come to them as sharp as
a sensation, they always get more tender-hearted when they suffer, and
it always does them good to suffer. Tender-hearted, unpassionate, and
comfortable natures always get much harder when they suffer, for
so they lose the fear and reverence and wonder they once had for
everybody who ever has to suffer, for now they know themselves what it
is to suffer and it is not so awful any longer to them when they know
too, just as well as all the others, how to have it.

And so it came in these days to Jeff Campbell. Jeff knew now always,
way inside him, what it is to really suffer, and now every day with
it, he knew how to understand Melanctha better. Jeff Campbell still
loved Melanctha Herbert and he still had a real trust in her and
he still had a little hope that some day they would once more get
together, but slowly, every day, this hope in him would keep growing
always weaker. They still were a good deal of time together, but now
they never any more were really trusting with each other. In the days
when they used to be together, Jeff had felt he did not know much what
was inside Melanctha, but he knew very well, how very deep always was
his trust in her; now he knew Melanctha Herbert better, but now he
never felt a deep trust in her. Now Jeff never could be really honest
with her. He never doubted yet, that she was steady only to him, but
somehow he could not believe much really in Melanctha's loving.

Melanctha Herbert was a little angry now when Jeff asked her, "I never
give nobody before Jeff, ever more than one chance with me, and I
certainly been giving you most a hundred Jeff, you hear me." "And why
shouldn't you Melanctha, give me a million, if you really love me!"
Jeff flashed out very angry. "I certainly don't know as you deserve
that anyways from me, Jeff Campbell." "It ain't deserving, I am ever
talking about to you Melanctha. Its loving, and if you are really
loving to me you won't certainly never any ways call them chances."
"Deed Jeff, you certainly are getting awful wise Jeff now, ain't you,
to me." "No I ain't Melanctha, and I ain't jealous either to you. I
just am doubting from the way you are always acting to me." "Oh yes
Jeff, that's what they a