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It must be right: but, if it an't right, the Lord forgive me, for I can't help doing it!" "Well, old man!" said Aunt Chloe, "why don't you go, too? Will you wait to be toted down river, where they kill niggers with hard work and starving? I'd a heap rather die than go there, any day! There's time for ye, be off with Lizy, you've got a pass to come and go any time.
"I I guess it was something about the children of Israel." "Yes, prob'ly it was something about 'em," Pa assented with a chuckle. But Ma spoke more sharply: "I guess you won't get let to set in Aunt Keren-Happuch's pew again right away, Helen 'Lizy." For before my lesson I had once more been studying Aunt Em'ly's face. I didn't mind the prohibition the least bit. I had a new idea and a new hope.
She sent me to see why Lizy didn't come to dress her; and when I telled her she was off, she jest ris up, and ses she, 'The Lord be praised; and Mas'r, he seemed rael mad, and ses he, 'Wife, you talk like a fool. But Lor! she'll bring him to! I knows well enough how that'll be, it's allers best to stand Missis' side the fence, now I tell yer."
From them I procured some singe or army beef, and we halted an hour to rest the horses and eat our luncheon. We were beginning to reach familiar territory and the idea of getting home put new life into our tired limbs, and made each moment of delay seem uselessly long. From Lizy ours was a straight road and we made rapid progress. The depressing signs of battle became fewer and fewer.
Winship has grown old within the year. His hair has whitened and his bushy eyebrows; but the grip of his hand, the sound of his homely speech, seemed to wake me from some ugly dream. Here we were together again in the wholesome daylight, Father Winship, little Helen 'Lizy and the Schoolmaster, and all must yet be well. Mr.
Miss Lizy and me were married on the 29th day of April, with some inconvenience to both sides, on account of the dread that we had of being married in May; for it is said "Of the marriages in May, The bairns die of a decay."
Arthur thought a puff-ball would represent Peterkin better than anything else, but he replied: 'Yes, I know. You want a coat of arms, which shall suggest your early days 'When I was a flounderin' to get up jess so, Peterkin interrupted him. 'You've hit it, square. Now I'd like a picter of the Lizy Ann, as she was, but May Jane won't hear to't. What do you say, square?
"I didn't know jest what to say, an' she spoke agin: "'I want to tell you, Dave, she says, 'that you've ben good an' kind to me. "'I've tried to, I says, 'an' Lizy, I says, 'I'll never fergive myself about that bunnit, long 's I live.
Wal, I loses off my hat, and sings out nuff to raise the dead. Course Lizy she hars, and she dodges back, when Mas'r Haley he goes past the door; and then, I tell ye, she clared out de side door; she went down de river bank; Mas'r Haley he seed her, and yelled out, and him, and me, and Andy, we took arter.
"I'm come to you as a friend; both Mrs Pawkie and me have long discerned that ye have had a look more than common towards our friend, Miss Lizy, and we think it our duty to enquire your intents, before matters gang to greater length." He looked a little dumfoundered at this salutation, and was at a loss for an answer, so I continued
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