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They all of them hastened to her bedside, and when she saw the old man kneeling upon the floor, she put forth her mummied hand and left it rest upon his head. "I's gwine tell de Lawd erbout de folks down yere," were her last words, and from the woods they brought wild flowers and among them she slept, black sentiment of a hallowed past a past of slavery, but of love.
"Why, if I's dead," said Fly, untying her bonnet strings, "then the funy-yal would come round and take me; that's all." "We are most grateful to you," said Aunt Madge, turning to Mrs. Brooks, "for bringing home this lost child; but do tell us where you found her." Then Mrs. Brooks related all she knew of Fly's wanderings, the little one putting in her own explanations.
"I wants to go home." She saw another tear roll down the plastered cheek, and repeated her operation with the rag. "What do ye want?" she demanded again. "To tell ye thet I air a goin' to make an hones' woman of ye. I's a goin' to marry ye. I knows I's a pappy, but the brat'll die, and he'll be forgot like yer daddy will!" Tess instantly froze into a white, tense little form.
You must keep a good watch, now, 'cause you'll h'ar something 'fore long dat'll make you wish you had nebber been born. I's heered it often, an' I knows what it is. Good-by; an' de Lor' bress an' protect you;" and, before Frank could speak, Pomp had disappeared. Alone! The young hero had never before comprehended the full meaning of that single word, as he did now.
Peter turned, and caught an alcoholic breath over his shoulder, and the blurred voice of a Southern negro called out above the rumble of the car and the roar of the engine: "'Fo' Gawd, ef dis ain't Peter Siner I's been lookin' at de las' twenty miles, an' not knowin' him wid sich skeniptious clo'es on! Wha you fum, nigger?"
It seems to me that you always know everything about everything. If that man had known you as I know you he would have taken your judgment at the start, and dropped his dry battery where it was." "Did you ring, Marse Sellers?" "No, Marse Sellers didn't." "Den it was you, Marse Washington. I's heah, suh." "No, it wasn't Marse Washington, either." "De good lan'! who did ring her, den?"
"Well," I says, "it clean beats me. Why, Tom, it shows that the Lord took as much pains makin' this Desert as makin' the United States and all them other countries." Jim says: "Huck, dat don' stan' to reason. I reckon dis Desert wa'n't made at all. Now you take en look at it like dis you look at it, and see ef I's right. What's a desert good for?
'Then he is really going? I heard the pater and mater talking about it yesterday, and they said it would be an excellent thing for him. 'Oh, Maude! Then they did not say anything about what we hoped? 'What, the mater's offering for you to come and live with us, darling? Oh no; and I's afraid it is of no use to ask her, for she said of herself, that she knew Mr. Mohun had sisters, and
A sudden inspiration seized Young. "Child, if I bring your father back to you, will you marry me?" The unexpected question sent Tess staggering back; a tearful smile spread the red lips. "Ye'r' batty," she said presently, with a dissenting shake of the red curls. "Ye'r' gone plumb crazy.... I's a squatter, nothin' but a squatter. I stays here with Daddy. I marries no man. See?"
"Did you look at the outside of it, I mean Harriet?" "No, Miss Phill, I didn't look neider at de outside, nor de inside; I's not dat kind; I look at Mass'r Richard's face. Bless you, Miss Phill! Mass'r Richard kaint hide nothing. If he was in love Harriet would know it, quick as a flash " "I think not, Harriet." "Den I tell you something, Miss Phill.
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