I had bemeaned and berated and faulted her so continual', and belt her up as a pore, doless creetur', without no backbone or ambition; and now I knowed that if thar ever were a tender, ginuwine, angel daughter on this here earth, it were her to me.

Would the communication between the writer and the public have been what it is nowsomething continual, confidential, something like personal affection?