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I'd been there, ye see, twenty years ago on my weddin' trip; I was livin' in Pennsylvany then. But, Lor! Noo York couldn't 'a' done this here! No, sir, she couldn't. Chicargo gits my money not that I've got much on it, with a nervous start and a shrugging movement as if he were trying to draw in his pockets and obliterate all traces of them.
"A what?" "A floating poulterer's shop. Can't you hear 'em killing the cats?" This interested me, and I listened intently. "Killing the cats?" said another. "Ay, poor beggars. Lor' a mussy! our cats at home don't know what horrible things is done in foreign lands. They're killing cats for market to-morrer, for roast and biled." "Get out, and don't make higgerant observations, messmate.
I said 'e stuck to it, but I said I wasn't sure whether that was right or not. And then the old man began. Lor'! 'e DID let me 'ave it!" Mr. Brisher affected an insincere amusement. "'E was, well what you might call a rare 'and at Snacks. Said that was the sort of friend 'e'd naturally expect me to 'ave.
Nothing has happened to Benjamin, I hope? I know he has been bilious, but I gave him Oh, worser an dat! worser an dat! sobbed the negro. Oh! de Lor! Miss 'Lizzy an Miss Grant walk mountain poor Bravy kill a lady painter- Oh, Lor, Lor! Natty Bumppo tare he troat open come a see, masser Richard here he be here he be.
Now he has been expecting the new English Charge d'Affaires here these last ten days, and has kept the hotel half empty in consequence; and as mi Lor Callonby has engaged the other half, why we have nothing to do; so that when he asked the postillion if you were mi Lor, and found that you were not, he determined not to admit you." "But why not have the civility to explain that?"
"Lor', sah, he no Chloe's fadder, at all her fadder dead and gone, and nebber come back. I want to say a word to young Masser, 'bout Chloe and dat 'ere fellow, Neb yes, sah." "Well, what is it, Dido? I see they like each other, and suppose they wish to get married, too. Is that the object of your visit? if so, I consent without waiting to be asked.
"You see," he said, still displaying the drum's interior, "there is no deception " I put out my hand to grip him, and he eluded me by a dexterous movement. I snatched again, and he turned from me and pushed open a door to escape. "Stop!" I said, and he laughed, receding. I leapt after him into utter darkness. "Lor' bless my 'eart! I didn't see you coming, sir!"
"No, Dinah," replied the spinster, lifting a beatific glance and smile to the ceiling, "I am still engaged with my 'Philosophical, Psychological and Theosophical Research." "Lor'!" and Dinah rolled her eyes with an awe-struck look over the audience. "I 'spec' some day, honey, you's so uplifted, you'll go soarin' up inter de clouds and outer sight, straight 'ter kingdom come " "Dinah!
"But Lor bless me, sir, I never thought of you!" Mrs. Tugwell exclaimed, having thought out her self. "What did Parson say, and your mother, and Miss Faith? It must 'a been better than a play to see them." "Not one of them knows a word about it yet; nor anybody in Springhaven, except you, Kezia.
"I mean, he's so, so sorry for the poor.... But lor, ma'am, we know how rich is rich, and poor poor, and so it must always be this side o' the pearly gates " She stopped short; and then added shyly, with a kind of anxiousness in her wide dark gaze: "An expression, ma'am for Heaven. I I just learned it." The lady's look was absent. "Oh!... Where did you learn that?"
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