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She snatched out her handkerchief, flaunted it, and saw him start gratefully at sight of her and reply with his own. Then he wheeled and sped on. "Go," she cried, "go; and de Lawd be wid you, Mr. Jawn Mahch, Gen'lemun! O Lawd, Lawd! Mr. Jawn Mahch, I wisht I knowed a nigger like you!" It was still early May when Barbara Garnet had been six weeks in college.
Dust, leaves, and flakes of cotton rose on its wave, and ah! his hat went with them. Johanna's teeth flashed in soft laughter as she waited in a doorway. "Run," she whispered, "run, Mr. Jawn Mawch, Gen'lemun. You so long gitt'n' to de awffice hat cayn't wait. Yass, betteh give it up. Bresh de ha'r out'n yo' eyes an' let dat-ah niggeh-felleh ketch it. K-he!
Look like jess ev'ybody a-makin' money." She got her mistress to read a certain sign for her. "Jawn Mawch, Gen'lemun! k-he-he! dass a new kine o' business. An' yit, Miss Barb, I heah Gen'l Halliday tell Miss Fannie 'istiddy dat Mr. Mawch done come out ahade on dem-ah telegraph pole' what de contractors done git sicken' on an' th'ow up. He mus' be pow'ful smart, dat Mr. Mawch; ain't he, Miss Barb?"
"Yo' go right up to de office over dar and gin it to the clerk. He see Cap'n Gary gits um." "But but I have to see the captain myself," urged Ralph. "What yo' reckon a gen'lemun like he wanter sech a boy as you? Huh?" Ralph felt that his clothes were against him, but he did not propose to be bullied by a servant and a negro at that. "Look here," said he.