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"It doesn't hurt as bad as it ought to, Cornelius," and the blows came again. "Ow! Dey won't git win' of it! 'Deed an 'deedy dey won't, sweet Mahse John Wesley! oh! o oh! Ow! Oh, Lawd, come down! Dey des shan't git win' of it! 'fo' Gawd dey shan't! Ow! oh! oh! oh! a ah oo oo!" "Now, go!" said Garnet.
He said he'd try to meet the deputation's wishes and the following Sunday he announced as his text, 'Adam, Where Art Thou? "This text, brethern and sistern, said the preacher, 'can be divided into fo' heads. Fust, every man is somewhar. Second, most men is whar they hain't got no business to be. Third, you'd better watch out or that's whar you'll be yourself. Fo'th, infant baptism.
When Yancy reached the Cross Roads, Crenshaw gave him a disquieting opinion as to the probable contents of his letter, for he himself had heard from Bladen that he had decided to assume the care of the boy. "So you reckon it was that " said Yancy, with a deep breath. "It's a blame outrage, Bob, fo' him to act like this!" said the merchant with heat.
"He's got some notion in his head that Ah've done him an injury you heard him?" She nodded. "Ah swear to you, Sydney, Ah haven't any idea what he means, but he harps on it, and he sent me a challenge, as Ah suppose you know, or you wouldn't be here." "Yes. Bob brought me." "Ah bluffed him off fo' three days.
"We'll come back to hear the rest after tea, mammy, if you're not too tired," Rosie said as she turned to go. But on coming back they found no one on the veranda but Betty, who, in answer to their inquiries, said, "Aunt Chloe hab entired fo' de night; she hab de misery in de back and in de head, and she cayn't tell no mo' stories fo' mawning."
At the last moment Mom Beck waylaid them in the hall with two huge bundles. "I couldn't do nothin' else fo' you chillun," she said, as she offered them. "Ole Becky ain't got much to give but her blessing but I can cook yit, and I done made you a big spice cake apiece, and icened it with icin' an inch thick."
"Thar warn't none of yo' hand in that, Amos Burr," cried his wife, checking him again before he had recovered breath from his last sentence. "Many's the night I've wrastled with you till you war clean wore out with sleeplessness, 'fo' you'd let the child keep on at his books." "I ain't never seen no good come of it," repeated Burr stolidly; then he returned to Nicholas.
Nevah mind tryin' to use it, fo' I've unloaded it." The face of the man in black was white with fury. His gimlet eyes had narrowed to slits, and his mouth was distorted with rage. It was the face of a killer a murderer without conscience or pity. "I'll get yuh for this, Wolf!" he bellowed. "Yuh'll find out how strong I am here. This country isn't big enough to hold us both, blast yuh!
Barslow, and my regahd fo' my own honah, pledged as it is to those to whom I have sold these properties on the representations I have made as to the prospects of the city, will not puhmit me to admit!" This seemed to him entirely conclusive, and cut off the investigation.
Those ah the debentures of the Trescott Development Company, fawmed to build up Trescott's Addition. We sold those lands on credit, except fo' a cash payment of one foath the purchase-price. This brought to us, as you can see, Madam, a lahge amount of notes, secured by fuhst mortgages on the Trescott's Addition properties.
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