Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered

19And then again Him-with-the-square-toes had gone back to hishouse. He stood once more and again in his high flat house withoutsides to it and without a roof with his soulless sword standing uprightin his hand. His pale white horse had galloped over waters, andthundered over land. The time of dying was over. It was time to burythe dead.“Janie, us been in dis dirty, slouchy place two days now, and dat’stoo much. Us got tuh git outa dis house and outa dis man’s town. Ahnever did lak round heah.”“Where we goin’, Tea Cake? Dat we don’t know.”“Maybe, we could go back up de state, if yuh want tuh go.”“Ah didn’t say dat, but if dat is whut you—”“Naw, Ah ain’t said nothin’ uh de kind. Ah wuz tryin’ not tuh keepyou outa yo’ comfortable no longer’n you wanted tuh stay.”“If Ah’m in yo’ way—”“Will you lissen at dis woman? Me ’bout tuh bust mah britches tryin’tuh stay wid her and she heah—she oughta be shot wid tacks!”“All right then, you name somethin’ and we’ll do it. We kin give ituh poor man’s trial anyhow.”“Anyhow Ah done got rested up and de bed bugs is done got toobold round heah. Ah didn’t notice when mah rest wuz broke. Ah’m