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"And do you know, Teacher, I'd been practisin' that there style of medicine fur near twelve years before I knowed it was just to say the Eclectic School, you understand." "Like Moliere's prose-writer!" remarked the teacher, then smiled at himself for making such an allusion in such a place. "Won't you have some more sliced radishes, Teacher?" urged the hostess. "I made a-plenty."
You calling the minister by his first name." "I've done it ever since I knowed him, and he wouldn't like me to change now. Hey, Mr. McGowan?" "Call me by my first name, Cap'n. Too much dignity doesn't sit well on your shoulders. You needn't mind, Miss Pipkin, for that is a habit that was formed before I became a minister, and there is no disrespect, I assure you."
"But he sure looks the part well enough t' keep all Dry Lake indoors and I never knowed Weary t' terrorize a hull town before. And where'd he git that horse? and where's Glory at? and why ain't he comin' on t' camp t' help you chumps giggle? Ain't he had plenty uh time t' foller me out and enjoy his little joke? And another thing, he was hard at it when I struck town. Now, where'd yuh get off at?"
Pap warn't in a good humor so he was his natural self. He said he was down town, and everything was going wrong. His lawyer said he reckoned he would win his lawsuit and get the money if they ever got started on the trial; but then there was ways to put it off a long time, and Judge Thatcher knowed how to do it.
"I've knowed 'im for years, sir. I shall only be too pleased to 'ave any friend of 'is in my 'ouse, I assure you." "That's well. Now, Mrs Butt, my motive in coming here is to discover a runaway relation " "La! sir a little boy?" "No, Mrs Butt, a " "Surely not a little gurl, sir," said the landlady, with a sympathetic expression.
"When they told Tom's wife 'e was drownded, she'd 'a' dropped down dead 'erself and left the children, if she 'adn't 'a' knowed it all along," Harriet explained to Beth.
But when I asked him, with some surprise, if he knew the Bowery, he looked at me quickly, with the slightest trace of offended dignity in his eyes, as if I had meant to overstep the line between us, and answered quickly: "I knowed Abe Condit," and immediately changed the conversation.
What do you think of yourself, you young devil, a decoying of a grey-haired old gen'leman like this? Why, sir, him an' his pals 'ud ha' taken every penny you had about you! Murdered you, they might I've knowed as much. It's a good thing I 'appened on the spot. Come along, you bad boy! Bill. I didn't, take it. And I won't go. James. Come along. They'll change it for you at the lock-up. Bill.
The smile masked an interest that illumined his eyes very slightly as he looked at her. "I expect that is plum slick shootin'," he returned slowly. "But some men can do it. I've knowed them. But I ain't heard that it's been done lately in this here country. I reckon Ben told you somethin' of how this man looked?"
"Der wuz Levi, Floyd, Henry, Noah, an' Nancy, jes' my haf brudders an' sistahs, but I neber knowed no diffrunce but whut dey wuz my sistahs an' brudders." "Where we liv? On Marsa John Alexander's farm, he wuz a good Marsa too. All Marsa John want wuz plenty wurk dun and we dun it too, so der wuz no trubble on ouah plantashun. I neber reclec' anyone gittin' whipped or bad treatment frum him.
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