|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: inordinately grateful? Ah--the saving of his soul! That must be
it. Yes, he could remember, now, how he once set himself the task
of converting Goodson, and laboured at it as much as--he was going
to say three months; but upon closer examination it shrunk to a
month, then to a week, then to a day, then to nothing. Yes, he
remembered now, and with unwelcome vividness, that Goodson had told
him to go to thunder and mind his own business--HE wasn't hankering
to follow Hadleyburg to heaven!
So that solution was a failure--he hadn't saved Goodson's soul.
Richards was discouraged. Then after a little came another idea:
had he saved Goodson's property? No, that wouldn't do--he hadn't
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg |
