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I promise faithful never to do it again. I've found a fren'." "Do you know this covey?" asked the policeman. "Deny it, if yer dare," said Blake. "Jus' you deny it, that's orl, an' I'll tell the parson." "Slightly, constable," I said. "I mean, I've seen him before." "Then you'd better take 'im off if you don't want 'im locked up." "'Im want me locked up?
"Yes, missy," she said, "Cap'n Lane am a fren' ter be proud ob. I tinks he mus' be like Mass'r Linkum hisself, fer dere nebber was a man more braver and more kinder. Now I'se gwine ter tell yer what happen all that drefful night, an' Zeb will put in his word 'bout what he knows. While de cap'n was a-speakin' to de young ladies, de missus jes' lay in my arms as ef she was dead.
"Is that your knife, Harry King?" demanded Thong. "Sure thash mine! Bought it in li'l ole N' York lash week. Didn't have no name on it brought it here for my ole fren', Darcy, t' engrave. Put wifely's name on her namesh Pearl P-e-a-r-l!" and he spelled it out laboriously and thickly. "My wife she likes them things. Me I got no use for 'em.
It's rather necessary for sumbody to lick in a good square, lively fite, and in this 'ere case it happens to be the United States of America. You fit splendid, but we was too many for you. Then make the best of it, & let us all give in and put the Republic on a firmer basis nor ever. "I don't gloat over your misfortuns, my young fren'. Fur from it.
Elizabeth Alexander, Frederica St. She says she has heard her family refer to parts of it at different time in her early life and supposed that the negro preacher belonged to her people. Quote: Mine deerly fren: Ub dar's wun ting wot de Lord abominerates worser nor anudder; it is a wicked nigger!
"My fren'," said he, with a directness and succinctness utterly foreign to his everyday speech, "you want to know what happen'. Ver' well; it was like this." He told us that, after we had left them, they hurried on as fast as possible in order to reach the settled country. Owing to the excellence of his animal he was generally some distance in advance.
No, siree; we'll play for beans." A sudden light illuminated Uncle Billy's face again, but he said, with a grim desperation, "Not to-night! I've got to go into town. That fren' o' mine expects me to go to the theayter, don't ye see? But I'll be out to-morrow at sun-up, and we'll fix up this thing o' the ranch." "Seems to me you're kinder stuck on this fren'," grunted Uncle Jim.
But when a moment later the proprietor of this roadside ranch, this artificial oasis in a land of desolation, strolled into the big bare room where half a dozen troopers were dozing or gambling, it was with an air of confidential joviality that he whispered to the corporal in charge, "Our fren', the major, he riffuse me sell you aguardiente, mescal; but wait to-night."
"No!" sez I, gittin up in a exsited manner, "yu don't say so! How long has she bin in that way?" "Frum her arliest infuncy," sed he. "Wall, whot upon arth duz she doo it fur?" I inquired. "She kan't help it," sed the man in black close. "It's the brand of Kane." "Wall, she'd better stop drinkin Kane's brandy," I replide. "I sed the brand of Kane was upon her not brandy, my fren.
Nosey returned to Portsmouth and his ship. His mess the mess-deck itself was agog with rumours. Had he heard the "buzz"? Nosey had not. "I bin to London to see a fren'," he explained. Then they told him. The battle-cruiser to which he belonged had been ordered to join the Mediterranean Fleet. That was Monday; they were to sail for Malta on Thursday. And Janie was dying in the Middlesex Hospital.
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