'
'But you can mostly say something as I can make sense on, Mrs
Winthrop,' said Silas.
'Well, then, Master Marner, it come to me summat like this: I can
make nothing o' the drawing o' lots and the answer coming wrong; it
'ud mayhap take the parson to tell that, and he could only tell us
i' big words. But what come to me as clear as the daylight, it was
when I was troubling overpoor Bessy Fawkes, and it allays comes into
my head when I'm sorry for folks, and feel as I can't do a power to
help 'em, not if I was to get up i' the middle o' the night- it
comes into my head as Them above has got a deal tenderer heart nor
what I've got- for I can't be anyways better nor Them as made me,
and if anything looks hard to me, it's because there's things I
don't know on; and for the matter o' that, there may be plenty o'
things I don't know on, for it's little as I know- that it is. And so,
while I was thinking o' that, you come into my mind, Master Marner,
and it all come pouring in:-- if I felt i' my inside what was the
right and just thing by you, and them as prayed and drawed the lots,
all but that wicked un, if they'd ha' done the right thing by you if
they could, isn't there Them as was at the making on us, and knows
better and has a better will? And that's all as ever I can be sure on,
and everything else is a big puzzle to me when I think on it. For
there was the fever come and took off them as were full-growed, and
left the helpless children; and there's the breaking o' limbs; and
them as 'ud do right and be sober have to suffer by them as are
contrairy- eh, there's trouble i' this world, and there's things as we
can niver make out the rights on.
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