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I'm sorry it must be retired from public life so early in its career." Lloyd drew the edges of the largest holes together. "Yes, it's ruined beyond all hope, for I stepped cleah through it when I tripped on the stairs, and it pulled apart in at least a dozen places, just as a thin veil would. But you'll see it again, and on anothah maid of honah.
In such an event, suh, I shall be mo' than happy to suhve you; mo' than happy, by the Lord!" "Captain," said Jim feelingly, "you're a good fellow and a true friend, and I promise you I shall have no other second." "In that promise," replied the Captain gravely, "you confeh an honah, suh!"
She shall be brought unto the King . . . the virgins that be her fellows shall bear her company. "De lady is here, yo' Honah!" Manasseh announced it from the doorway and stood aside. Of the company four had already succumbed and slid from their chairs. The others staggered to their feet, Sir Oliver as promptly as any.
Drummond, the vice-president of the company," interposed Courtland cheerfully, "was engaged in furnishing to us the sinews of war." Major Reed bowed a little more formally. "Most of us heah, sir, were in the wah some time or other, and if you gentlemen will honah me by joining in a social glass at the hotel across the way, I'll introduce you to Captain Prendergast, who left a leg at Fair Oaks."
He thought he had got hold of a grand joke at my expense. However, I was not in the least angry with him. I felt too happy to have lost my temper with any one, especially Horner, whom I generally regarded as a poor creature to be tolerated rather than blamed. "Did you ever hear, Horner," said I, "how Peabody made his first fortune?" "No, 'pon honah, I asshaw you, no."
I believe I'll weah it when I stand up at the altah with Eugenia. It seems the most appropriate kind of a necklace that a maid of honah could weah."
"You don't mean to say," I asked, on getting closer to him, "that you've actually taken to early rising?" "No, 'pon honah, I asshaw you, my deah fellah, no!" he replied, quite excitedly. "No, I asshaw you, no," he repeated. "Well, then, what on earth makes you come out at this early unearthly hour?" I said.
Sheriff, take charge of the prisoner. Where is the sheriff, Mr. Clerk?" "Please the Court," said the prosecuting attorney, "Sheriff Watson is not here to-day. He is lyin' sick out to his ranch. He was injured, yo' Honah, in arrestin' Ike Anderson, and he has not yet recovered." "Well, who is in charge of this prisoner?" said the Court. "There ought to be some one to take care of him."
"You're goin' down there with 'im," added her mother, "an' it 'd be just as well to be on friendly terms with 'im." Wain himself had followed the women. "Sho'ly, Miss Rena, you're gwine ter honah me wid one dance? I'd go 'way f'm dis pa'ty sad at hea't ef I had n' stood up oncet wid de young lady er de house."
"Oh ah! you see ah, my deah fellah," he answered, "it was all those confawnded little bahds and the bells kicking up such a raow; that, 'pon honah, I couldn't sleep and so I came out. I asshaw you it was all those bweastwy little bahds and the bells!" "At all events, I must congratulate you on your reformation," I said. "Yaas?
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