all that, you certainly must stand and not holler, to be certainly really brave the way I understand it.”  “What you mean Jeff by your talking.”  “I mean, seems to me really not to holler, is to be strong not to show you ever have been hurt.  Seems to me, to get your head hurt from your trouble and to 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 doing, or anybody else that has been feeling with you.  You certainly Melanctha, never can remember right, when it comes what you have done and what you think happens to you.”  “It certainly is all easy for you Jeff Campbell