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'You're not answering my question, you know, Mark, observed Mr Pinch. 'Well, sir, said Mark, 'I don't know as there's much to answer further than that. Him and his friend goes and stops at the Moon and Stars till they've run a bill there; and then comes and stops with us and does the same. The running of bills is common enough Mr Pinch; it an't that as we object to; it's the ways of this chap.
'Yes, I know you are, said the gentleman: 'You're hungry too, an't you? 'No, sir, answered Oliver. 'Hem! said the gentleman. 'No, I know you're not. He is not hungry, Mrs. Bedwin, said the gentleman: looking very wise. The old lady made a respectful inclination of the head, which seemed to say that she thought the doctor was a very clever man.
Thar's not so many in the mount'ns an' those that are here live 'way up in the gullies. The sure 'nough po' whites, or 'Crackers' as they call them, belong to the pine belt, between the mount'ns an' the swamps o' the coast." "Why are they called 'Crackers'?" "I don' know, unless because they live on cracked corn and razor-back hog. It an't so easy to say how they begun.
The flower that had put forth its abortive buds for so many seasons, burst into full bloom at last. With the mighty joy in his heart, and the light of the immortal hope beaming upon him, he passed into the World of Certainties. A Virginian in California. "Hard at it, are you, uncle?" "No, sah I's workin' by de day, an' I an't a-hurtin' myself."
"I hope he won't!" said George; "I never want to see him in heaven!" "Hush, Mas'r George! it worries me! Don't feel so! He an't done me no real harm, only opened the gate of the kingdom for me; that's all!" At this moment, the sudden flush of strength which the joy of meeting his young master had infused into the dying man gave way.
This is speaking plain, an't it?" Away tripped the sylph like girl, and in a twinkling reappeared with the desired garment, which in a convulsion of laughter she slipped over my head as I sat on the floor; and having fastened it properly round my waist, I rose and paid my respects to my warm hearted relations.
"I don't know nothink of consequential ground," says Jo, still staring. "Is it blessed?" "Which?" says Jo, in the last degree amazed. "Is it blessed?" "I'm blest if I know," says Jo, staring more than ever; "but I shouldn't think it warn't. Blest?" repeats Jo, something troubled in his mind. "It an't done it much good if it is. Blest? I should think it was t'othered myself.
"And she an't over partial to having scholars on the premises," Joe continued, "and in partickler would not be over partial to my being a scholar, for fear as I might rise. Like a sort or rebel, don't you see?" I was going to retort with an inquiry, and had got as far as "Why " when Joe stopped me. "Stay a bit. I know what you're a going to say, Pip; stay a bit!
You see, wen Missis Gummidge falls a-thinking of the old 'un, she an't what you may call good company. Betwixt you and me, Mas'r Davy and you, ma'am wen Mrs. Gummidge takes to wimicking, our old country word for crying, 'she's liable to be considered to be, by them as didn't know the old 'un, peevish-like. Now I DID know the old 'un, said Mr.
"I'm going through the kitchen, and going to put everything in order, once, Dinah; and then I'll expect you to keep it so." "Lor, now! Miss Phelia; dat ar an't no way for ladies to do.
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