The widow, she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me lots of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it.

The widow, she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me lots of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it.

– Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 1. Huck recognizes the Widow Douglas’s good intentions but cannot bring himself to accept them.

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