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Then, this skipper, an Albany or Albonny man, as he would probably have styled himself, had got down the river as far as Sing-Sing, and had acquired a tolerable English; but, being now disturbed, he fell back upon his original mode of speaking, the certain proof that he would never give in.
"Who you t'ink out-dere?" asked Pliny the elder of his consort, with a very significant look. "How you t'ink guess, ole Plin? You 'spose nigger wench like Albonny wise woman, dat she see t'rough a gate, and know ebbery t'ing, and little more!" "Well, dat Sassy Nick. What you say now?" "You sartain, ole Plin?" asked Mistress Smash, with a face ominous of evil. "Sartain as ear.
The first was Drewett's pride, blended with a little obstinacy, and the other was the "Albonny" skipper's pride, blended with a good deal of obstinacy.
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