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Bimeby de people I libed wid got hard up fer money, an' dey sole me one way an' my pore little gal de oder; an' I neber laid my eyes on my pore chillen sence den. But, honeys, let de wind blow high or low, I 'spects to outwedder de storm an' anchor by'm bye in bright glory. But I'se bin a prayin' fer one thing, an' I beliebs I'll git it; an' dat is dat I may see my chillen 'fore I die.
They said, they were very desirous to have their children learn all they could while they were young. We asked them if they did not fear that their children would become lazy if they went to school all the time. One said, shrewdly, "Eh! nebber mind dey come to by'm by belly 'blige 'em to work." In the evening Mr. M. held a religious meeting in the chapel; the weekly meeting for exhortation.
By'm by, when she git ovah her mad spell, she go off in da otha room an' come back sid some o' dem good things fo' me." The old man's eyes twinkled. "Dat be w'at I'se atter all de time," he explained. The perils of a life at sea are not as great as fiction writers sometimes indicate, according to this old sea dog. He says that in all his voyages, he has been in only one serious wreck.
"Who is doing the work, Maria?" I asked, after a minute. "Miss Daisy," she said, "dere ain't no happenin' at all widout de Lord lets it happen. Dere is much contrairy in dis world fact, dere is; but I 'spect de Lord make it up to us by'm by." And she turned her face full upon me with a smile of so much quiet resting in that truth, that for just a moment it silenced me.
"Him real good fella, quite.... Him only little time boss longa me. "Me yabber Boss Stobart." He said the name with pride. "I'll go with you," said Sax, starting up as if he meant to set out immediately. "I'll go with you to find my father." "By'm by," replied Yarloo. "White boy come by'm by. No come now. White boy sit down little time. Me come back by'm by."
"But by'm by, between two squalls, he made bold to lift his head and look, and then by the light a bluish color 'twas he saw all the coast clear away to Manacle Point, and off the Manacles in the thick of the weather, a sloop-of-war with topgallants housed, driving stern foremost toward the reef. It was she, of course, that was burning the flare.
Went away somewheres nobody knew where. Some said she'd crossed the lake an' gone away over into York State, some said she'd drowned herself. By'm by we heard that she'd gone way over into St. Lawrence County where Silas Wright lives an' where young Grimshaw had settled down after he got married.
"They set on the back seat," continued Willie, glancing importantly at the listeners to his romance, "a-lookin' into each other's eyes. And says the bold juke, to her, says he, 'Constance! like that. 'Constance, says he, 'I've loved you these many years agone." "What did she say then?" "I didn't ketch what she said. But by'm by the proud earl " "You said the bold juke." "It's the same thing.
"Ah, my frien'!" he said. "Dere was no dream. T'ree years, all bad, all hard, all sad dat was de dream. Now I wake up. Only one t'ing true in all de t'ree years de friend I make yais." "Hark!" said Dan. "Hear it? There's boats comin' off to us." "Yais!" The smile gleamed again. "For me. It is no dream. Dey hear my voice when I sing. By'm by you hear dem callin', 'Felipe! Dat's my name."
All the day the air was ominous of a coming something. At noon I asked a Chinaman when it might be expected. His answer shewed me how even this mighty destroyer is guided by a far mightier hand "Suppose he no' com now, he com by'm by, nine clock."
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