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I don't think she saw me, even, for she turned immediately and faced some one standing in the doorway, whom I now perceived to be Ailse, looking dreadfully frightened. "Good-mornin', Mis' Wheatley," said the Amazon, with withering sarcasm; "good-mornin', madam. I think you'll know it the nex' time I darkens your doors, I think you will.
No, SUH! Ah stup right out in de middle of it, lightnin' strikin' all 'round an' de thunder so turrible Marse Kenneth an' ever'body ailse wuz awonderin' ef de good Lord could hear 'em prayin' fo' mercy. Yas, suh yas, SUH! Dat's de gospel trufe. An' me right out dere in dat ole barnyard doin' de chores fo' ole Mis' Striker.
He found Zachariah beaming on the front door step. "Yas, suh, yas, suh!" was the servant's greeting. "Right aroun' dis way, Marse Kenny. Watch out, suh, ailse yo' scrape yo' hat off on dem branches." He grasped the bit, after his master had dismounted in the weed-covered little roadway at the side of the house, and ceremoniously waved his hand toward the open door.
"I'm tollubul, thankee, seh; de medicine makes me kind o' sleepy, that's all." I seated myself beside him, there was a moment or two of silence, then he asked, fretfully: "Whai whaih's Ailse? I like to see the 'oman 'roun'; s'haint got no speshul great gif', but she's kind o' handy wen a body's sick." "You don't seem to care so much for gifted women in a sick-room, Thomas?"
Truly 'tis a wonderful country. See yon pasture, Zachariah, with the cows and calves, a good score of them. And have you, by the way, noticed what a glorious day it is? This is life!" "Yas, suh, Marse Kenneth, Ah done notice dat, an' Ah done notice somefin ailse. Ah done notice dem buzzards flyin' low over yan way. Dat means death, Marse Kenneth. Somefin sho' am daid over yan way."
"Well, y-e-es, seh," replied Thomas, after reflecting awhile. "I hain't got nuth'n' 'g'in' Ailse; she's quite, an' ohdaly, a good cook, an' laundriss, an' she's a lady, an' all that, but sh' ain't not to say what you'd call a giftid 'oman." "Like Sister Mary Ann Jinkins, eh?" "Egg-zac'ly, seh. Mist' Dunkin, you put hit kehrec', seh.
'Dat dawg ain' good fo' nothin' ailse; so I jes rickon he 'th boun' to be a coon dawg;" and the author of "Snow in April" pounded the arm of his chair and roared till the gas-fixtures vibrated. Then at last, taking advantage of a lull in the talk, Rosella, unable to contain her patience longer, found breath to remark: "And 'Patroclus' my my little book?" "Ah hum, yes. 'Patroclus, your story.
Ailse hain't possessed with none of the high talence, cain't exhoht, naw sing with fehveh, naw yit lead in praieh; heh talence is mos'ly boun' up in napkins as Scripcheh say mos'ly boun' up in napkins; foh I do' deny she kin do up all kines o' table-linen, she kin indeed. Naw, seh, I cain't say I got nuth'n' 'g'in' Ailse." He was, I think, the worst manager of finances that I have ever known.
The M. in E.D. Invariably to keep my head cool; so hand them over, please; I want them. Herr V.K.. Bresently, Sare, zere is somtings ailse, it feels loike yes, it ees a mahouse-drap. Your haid is drouble vid moice, Sare, yes? Bot zere is none 'ere in ze 'at! Anozzer vide rad! And again a vide rad and one, two, dree more vide rads! You vind zey keep your haid noice and cool, Sare?
"I suppose I had better not see him this morning, then," said I. "Oh, yes; you can see him; he's doing well now, and if he doesn't talk too much, I think the sight of a cheerful face will do him good," and I left him giving some directions to Ailse, while I proceeded up-stairs to the room where Thomas lay. He was awake, so I walked up to his bedside, and asked him how he felt.
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