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"Wan's bad an' a sign o' sorrer; but if you spits twice over your left shoulder it doan't matter so much. But I be better off than many maidens, 'cause I be saint-protected like." "That's interesting, Joan." "Faither'd be mad if I let on 'bout it to him, so I doesn't. He doan't b'lieve much in dead saints, though Carnwall's full of 'em. Have 'e heard tell 'bout Saint Madern?"

"Why, it's quite a town, I b'lieve," said the old lady. "'Rill writes me thet the ho-tel's jest been painted, and there's a new blacksmith shop built. You goin' to school there What did you say your name was?" "Janice Day. I don't know whether I shall go to school while I am in Poketown, or not.

I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul and them ar matters; and so what's the use of doin' any more wickedness than 's re'lly necessary? it don't seem to me it's 't all prudent." "Tend to yer soul!" repeated Tom, contemptuously; "take a bright lookout to find a soul in you, save yourself any care on that score.

I b'lieve in my soul he's done drowned the po' lady's body." "All right; you go inside and be ready to chain the gate if I am run in." Then he waited for the return of the envoy. John Morris sat on his horse quite apart even from his own friends, and after a few words with him, Mitchell had gone to the group of horsemen about whom the townsmen were gathered.

If he's kind to you, why, all will be right, and, for my part, I'll see you want for nothing." "I do believe," said Diana, her eyes sparkling; she turned as she spoke and clasped one of Orion's hands "I do weally b'lieve this is better nor aunt's. Do come 'long, Orion; I always did love circuses."

I doan b'lieve my marster ever went to church in his life, but he wa'nt mean to his niggers, 'cept fer doin' things he doan 'low us to. He didn' care fer nothin' 'cept farmin'. "Dere wa'nt no schools fer cullud people den. We didn' know whut a school was. I never did learn to read. "We didn' have no mattresses on our beds like we has now. De chullun slep' under de big high beds, on sacks.

"Do hear the horrid creature talk!" said both ladies, laughing immoderately. "Come, clar out, you! I can't have you cluttering up the kitchen," said Dinah; "in my way, foolin' round here." "Aunt Dinah's glum, because she can't go to the ball," said Rosa. "Don't want none o' your light-colored balls," said Dinah; "cuttin' round, makin' b'lieve you's white folks.

She drew rein at the great gates leading into the grounds, and the servant dismounted and opened them. "Jim," she asked, "is your master at home?" "Dunno, Miss Elsie, but the missus am gone ober to Ion to spend the day, an lef' little Marse Horace at Roselands." "Why, what's the matter, Jim?" "De missus at Ion little bit sick, I b'lieve, Miss Elsie." "And papa didn't go with them?"

Mac Strann got him around the ribs and I heard the bones crack. God! And him still squeezin', and Fitz beatin' away at Mac's face with his bleedin' hand. "Will you b'lieve that I stood here and was sort of froze? Yes, Fatty, I couldn't make a move. And I was sort of sick and hollow inside the same way I went one time when I was a kid and seen a big bull horn a yearlin'.

"She did talk of it," Mrs. Browne replied, uneasily for she detected disapprobation of her guest in Miss McPherson's tone. "I think she would of went, but it seemed a pity not to see a little of America first. She will not stay long, and I hope you'll call soon. I b'lieve you have never been in my new house." "No, I have not.