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Selwyn called out after the slouching figure, striped with the diagonal lines of rain and flouted by the wind, tramping across the weeds of the yard to his horse. "Nex' Chewsday week," Hanway responded hoarsely. "Well, if this weather holds out, it is to be hoped that the gentlemen of the jury are web-footed!" Selwyn exclaimed.
But if you gwi' be at de old place till Chewsday, me an' him will sho hobble up to see you." As the afternoon shadows began to lengthen, Miss Dorcas and Anne started on their homeward journey. Miss Dorcas clucked and jerked the lines, and Firefly ambled homeward, now jog-trotting along the road, now pausing to nibble grass on the wayside.
The girl showed them all the white teeth which nature had lavished on her, saying with the best natured laugh in the world: “I don’ know how come I didn’ git dere Chewsday like I promise.” If the ladies were not disposed to consider that an all-sufficient reason, so much the worse, for Suze had no other to offer. From Mose’s wife, Minervy, better things might have been expected.
"And I thought I'd tell you" Martha was sure it was coming now, for Bud was in dead earnest "and I thought I'd just like to tell you, ef I only know'd jest how to tell it right" here Bud got frightened, and did not dare close the sentence as he had intended "I thought as how you might like to know or ruther I wanted to tell you that the that I that we all of us think that I that we are going to have a spellin'-school a Chewsday night."
"I'll tell yer," spoke Zibe Turner, and his monkeyish face lit up with a smile almost diabolical and his piercing black eyes shot a keen and excited look into the group, "I hearn that he has an appintment next Chewsday night at de top of Bald Knob, and to go there from his home he will have to take de Pigeon Crick road, cross de crick at Farley's and then branch off inter de big woods before he climbs de knob.
Chewsday will soon be hyar, an' what is done mus' be done in a hurry. It's a pity de Jedge an' Mas'r George is gwine to start early to Lexinton tomorrer, so dey can't 'tend to de mattah; but I'll jes inform Miss Viola of de situwation."
"Dey spoke of Chewsday night, and tuk it bekase Mas'r Very is to go dat way dat night." "You can leave me now for an hour, but at eight o'clock come back and I will send by you a message to Mr. Very." When the negro had left, Viola LeMonde retired to her own room and seating herself at her writing desk, wrote the following communication: "Mount Pisgah, January 6, 181 . The Rev. Jasper Very,
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