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Now this was the last country whereto the Katherine was boun; so there they abode some ten months in daily chaffer, and in pleasuring them in beholding all that there was of rare and goodly, and making merry with the merchants and the towns-folk, and the country-folk beyond the gates, and Walter was grown as busy and gay as a strong young man is like to be, and was as one who would fain be of some account amongst his own folk.
"Up yonner, nearly straight ober head, close by dat lilly 'peck ob cloud. Dar dey be, one on de one side, odder on fodder, de ole cock an' de ole hen, I'se be boun!" "Your daylights be uncommon clear, nigger. I don't see ne'er a bird Ah, now I do! two of 'em, as you say. Ye're right, Snowy. Them be frigates to a sartainty.
But spare de ole man, spare 'im fur de secun' blessin' which Gord dun promised us, an' which boun' ter cum bekase Gord can't lie. O Lord," she said suddenly, "remember thy po' ole servants dis night." But her appeals were fruitless. Already the "witch council" of the blacks was being formed to decide their fate.
"Yes," cried Pomona, her eyes sparkling with excitement, "I've seen a lord, and trod his floors, and I'll tell you all about it. You know I was boun' to do it, and I wanted to go alone, for if Jone was with me he'd be sure to put in some of his queer sayin's an' ten to one hurt the man's feelin's, and cut off the interview.
"I uz bawn wid a talent fo' de ladies." For a signal the indoor singer need not have gone beyond that line, but the spirit that always grew merry as the peril grew, the spirit which had made Kincaid's Battery the fearfulest its enemies ever faced, insisted: "You fine it on de map o' de contrac' plan, I's boun' to be a ladies' man!"
I wo'k in de fiel', his son go away to college an' come back a graduate. Das hit. Well, w'en freedom come, I des' bent an' boun' I ain' gwine do it no mo' an' I didn't. Now look at me. I sets down w'en I wants to. I does my own wo'kin' an' my own smokin'. I don't owe a cent, an' dis yeah my boy gwine graduate f'om de school. Dat's me, an' I ain' called on ol' Mas' yit."
She knows a heap, an' helps ole whitey hyur in his tricks an' sacrifiches. He don't want to lose her. She's hyur somewhur, I'll be boun'; but she ur cached: that's sartin." "Men!" cries Seguin, rushing forward to the parapet, "take ladders! Search every house! Bring all forth, old and young. Bring them to the open plain. Leave not a corner unsearched. Bring me my child!"
"Ah!" retorted Aurore, "par example! Non? Ee thingue we is ridge, eh? Ligue his oncle, eh? Ee thing so, too, eh?" She cast upon her daughter the look of burning scorn intended for Agricola Fusilier. "You wan' to tague the pard of dose Grandissime'?" The daughter returned a look of agony. "No," she said, "bud a man wad godd some 'ouses to rend, muz ee nod boun' to ged 'is rend?"
Wainwright had been tearful enough with sentimental foreboding all the morning, and, when she saw the irreparable damage wrought by Feyther's ruthless hands, she began to cry in good earnest. "I knowed as summat was boun' to happen," she groaned; "dear o' me, seventeen-an'-six, no less an' the soles scarce soiled! Eh, Gaffer! it's downright flyin' i' th' face o' Providence to be so wasteful."
'And I chose the red; it's so much gayer, and folk can see me the farther off. Feyther likes to see me at first turn o' t' lane, don't yo', feyther? and I'll niver turn out when it's boun' for to rain, so it shall niver get a spot near it, mammy. 'I reckoned it were to wear i' bad weather, said Bell. She said it in a kindly tone, though the words became a prudent rather than a fond mother.
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