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Their Eyes Were Watching God as 83got tuh bear de name uh poisonin' him! It's 'bout to kill me,Pheoby. Sorrow dogged by sorrow is in mah heart.""Dat's lie dat trashy nigger dat calls hisself uh two-headeddoctor brought tuh 'im in order tuh git in wid Jody. He seen hewuz sick—everybody been knowin' dat for de last longest, andden Ah reckon he heard y'all wuz kind of at variance, so dat wuzhis chance. Last summer dat multiplied cockroach wuz roundheah tryin' tuh sell gophers!""Pheoby, Ah don't even b'lieve Jody b'lieve dat lie. He ain'tnever took no stock in de mess. He just make out he b'lieve it tuhhurt me. Ah'm stone dead from standin' still and tryin' tuhsmile."She cried often in the weeks that followed. Joe got too weakto look after things and took to his bed. But he relentlesslyrefused to admit her to his sick room. People came and went inthe house. This one and that one came into her house with coveredplates of broth and other sick-room dishes without takingthe least notice of her as Joe's wife. People who never had knownwhat it was to enter the gate of the Mayor's yard unless it were todo some menial job now paraded in and out as his confidants.They came to the store and ostentatiously looked over whatevershe was doing and went back to report to him at the house. Saidthings like "Mr. Starks need somebody tuh sorta look out for 'imtill he kin git on his feet again and look for hissed."But Jody was never to get on his feet again. Janie had SamWatson to bring her the news from the sick room, and when hetold her how things were, she had him bring a doctor fromOrlando without giving Joe a chance to refuse, and without sayingshe sent for him."Just a matter of time," the doctor told her. "When a man'skidneys stop working altogether, there is no way for him to live.He needed medical attention two years ago. Too late now."