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"Everybody thinks I married you for your money, Mart it ain't true but the evidence is all against me. The only way to prove it a lie is to just naturally pull out and go back to work. I hate to leave, so long as you feel about me as you do but, Mart, I'm 'bleeged' to do it. My mind is so stirred up I don't enjoy anything any more.
'Bleeged to you, berry much, but when mas'r bought ole Sam for pity, ole Sam feel in his bones that some time he pay Mas'r Hugh; he don't know how, but it be's comin'. Sam knows it. I'm best off here." "But suppose I died, when I was so sick, what then?"
I don’t wants to name no names ’doubt I’se ’bleeged to; but dey done start a kiarrin’ de cotton seed off de place, and dats how.” If Hiram’s information had confined itself to the bare statement of things “goin’ wrong,” such intimation, of its nature vague and susceptible of uncertain interpretation, might have failed to rouse Thérèse from her lethargy of grief.
In my room she grew queerly playful, and continued so until she had drawn off my shoes and stockings. But then abruptly, she took my feet in her slim black hands, and with eyes lifted tenderly to mine, said: "How bu'ful 'pon de mountain is dem wha' funnish good tidin's!" She leaned her forehead on my insteps: "Us bleeged to paht some day, Miss Maud."
But I do wisht you could see your way to stayin' till Sattidy." "I don't see why, Mr. Baines, but if it'll be any good to you, I'll do it. But not a minute after Sattidy now mind that!" "Much 'bleeged, Marthy. G'-by, Marthy. G'-by." On Friday Scattergood was invisible in Coldriver village, for he had started away before dawn, driving his sway-backed horse over the mountain roads to the southward.
"When I goes out ter promenade I dress so fine and gay I'm bleeged to take my dog along Ter keep de gals away." Again his laughter rang in peals of sonorous fun. They joined in his laugh. A stable boy climbed the fence and called: "Don't ye want yer hosses, Marse Custis?" He was jealous of Sam's popularity. Custis glanced at Phil. "Sure. Let's ride." "All right, Ned saddle them."
"Golly, boss!" added the porter, "Ah jes' 'bleeged tun say sumpin', an Ah tells 'em de dinin' kyar'll sho'ly obertake us fo' six-thirty. Ya'as, indeedy. An' den, dar's dat lady up dar wid de sour-vinegary sort o' face. Ah jes' heard her say she'd be fo'ced tuh eat her back-comb if she didn't have her lunch pu'ty soon.
He hadn't made no secon' ch'ice yit an', you know, when de fust one of a parted couple marries ag'in, dey 'bleeged to take to de broomstick less'n dey go whar 'tain't known on 'em. Dat's de rule o' divo'cemint. When Yaller Silvy married my Joe wid a broomstick, dat lef' me free for a chu'ch marriage. An' I tell you, I had it, too.
Now thar war a peddler some say he slipped one icy evenin', 'bout dusk in winter some say evil ones waylaid him fur his gear an' his goods in his pack, but the settlemint mostly believes he war alone whenst he fell. His pack 'pears ter be full still, they say but ye air 'bleeged ter know he hev hed ter set that pack down fur good 'fore this time.
'Bleeged to you, gentlemen, but I don't need you," and with a profound bow the honest-looking old deacon walked away, asking the first man he met the way to Madison Square, and succeeded in finding the number without difficulty. "This is it," he said, stopping in front of the tall building, and examining it closely from the roof to the basement.
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