I am not much over twenty, and am
free to confess, do not care to be held much older. Touching your
further inquiry, not to seem churlish, but rather to speak frankly and
in a like spirit with yourself, I am not desirous to repeat to others
the story that has been, perhaps, but learned in part by myself. I do
not exactly believe that it would promote my plans to submit my affairs
to the examination of other people; nor do I think that any person
whomsoever would be very much benefited by the knowledge. You seem to
have forgotten, however, that I have already said that I am journeying
to Tennessee."
"Left Carolina for good and all, heh?"
"Yes--perhaps for ever. But we will not talk of it."
"Well, you're in a wild world now, 'squire."
"This is no strange region to me, though I have lost my way in it. I
have passed a season in the county of Gwinnett and the neighborhood,
with my uncle's family, when something younger, and have passed, twice,
journeying between Carolina and Tennessee, at no great distance from
this very spot.
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