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"We uster tap maple trees en hev big gathering foh ter make maple sugar dat war while I lived at Gracey. "De stage coach day war big days, wen de stage coach war a comin thru why us little niggers would try ter keep up wid de horses en run erlong side de coach en sometimes a man or woman would drop us a penny den dar was sho a scramble." "I remember wen we uster wash cloes wid a paddle.
Brady," he explained, "has been one of our most distinguished bankers, but he has retired from that industry and is considering other investments." "The bath-room? Where is it, gentlemen?" I ventured. "If you will step outside the door, suh, you can hear the splashing down the hall. It is the custom, however, foh gentlemen at tub to keep the bath-room door closed, in case of ladies promenading.
"Yo' don't reckon they git a idy them funichas an' home-fixin's ain't been paid foh in th' fust place?" I took the packet from his hands and glanced over it. "No, these seem to be all right, Clem only freight is charged for. But you must remember Virginia is a long way off." "Yes, seh it ain't neveh raghtly come upon me befoh." "And freights are high, of course?"
I work in de house all de time and didn hear much about people outside." "I doan believe in ghosts or hants. As foh dancin I enjoy it when I was young." "I cant read and I thought to myself I thought there was a change comin. I sense that. I think de Lawd he does everythin right. De Lawd open my way. I think all people should be religious and know about de Lawd and his ways."
De Mrs. like me and she like me and she say effen you want sompin ask foh it, anytime you want sompin or haff to have, get it. I didn suffer for enythin befoh dim Yankees come." "After de Yankees come even de house people, de white people didn get shoes. But I hab some, I save. I have some othah shoes I didn dare go in de house with. Da had wood soles. Oh Lawde how da hurt mah feet.
'Well, you see, Mis' Martin, you has one chance to mah two. 'I don't see it, Martin said. 'Mis' Martin, it's dis way. You has jis' de chance, lak you say, to become worms foh de fruitification of de cabbage garden. But I's got de chance to lif' mah voice to de glory of de Lawd as I go paddin' dem golden streets along 'ith de chance to be jis' worms along 'ith you, Mis' Martin."
It was not a large room; irregularly octagonal in shape, lined with wall-seats behind a close-set rank of tables; better lighted than most Parisian restaurants, that is to say, less glaringly; abominably ventilated; the open space in the middle of the floor reserved for a handful of haggard young professional dancers, their stunted bodies more or less costumed in brilliant colours, footing it with all the vivacity to be expected of five-francs per night per head; the tables occupied by parties Anglo-Saxon and French in the proportion of five to one, attended by a company of bored and apathetic waiters; a string orchestra ragging incessantly; a vicious buck-nigger on a dais shining with self-complacence while he vamped and shouted "Waitin' foh th' Robuht E. Lee"...
They's in a hurry to git home foh some reason, 'cause they ain' goin' to stop this side o' New York, 'cept to change cahs." "Where do they change cars?" "St. Louis goin' by way of Cincinnati an' Washin'ton." Grenfall's ticket carried him by way of Chicago. He caught himself wondering if he could exchange his ticket in St. Louis. "Traveling with her father and mother, I suppose?"
Approaching cautiously, he discovered with a dull sense of horror that a soldier had been buried where he had fallen, but covered so slightly that the tumulus scarcely more than outlined his form. "Ob cose I knowed I d hab ter see dese tings foh I started. What I such a fool fer? De Feds nor de Yanks am' a-gwine ter bodder me if I am' steppin' on 'em or ober 'em."
"De doctor he done give dis yar foh de Aspic nerve." Which is a dish that Jenifer must have invented himself, for it is not discoverable even on the fullest of menus. Leonore knelt in front of Peter, and, drenching her fingers with the wash, began rubbing it softly over his eyes.
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