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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."
"Don't be feard, Aunt Hagar," said the oldest of the men, "I spoke to Mas'r Thomas 'bout it, and he thought he might manage to sell you in a lot both together." "Dey needn't call me worn out yet," said she, lifting her shaking hands. "I can cook yet, and scrub, and scour, I'm wuth a buying, if I do come cheap; tell em dat ar, you tell em," she added, earnestly.
Try that, Mas'r Harry." Snatching out my knife, I cut at one of the pieces of yellow stone, to find it splinter under the keen edge of my blade. "I'll swear, though, that the pynt of that rod hit something else besides them bits of stone, Mas'r Harry. Try again; or, no let me try."
"Nuffin like dem yer pine cones fur winter mornin's," Hagar always said; and many were the visits which she and "Mas'r Noll" paid to the woods, returning with laden baskets. Somehow, after a time, the boy found more delight in these simple pleasures than at first.
This yer an't no way to help Mas'r." "I shall take the straight road to the river," said Haley, decidedly, after they had come to the boundaries of the estate. "I know the way of all of 'em, they makes tracks for the underground." "Sartin," said Sam, "dat's de idee. Mas'r Haley hits de thing right in de middle. Now, der's two roads to de river, de dirt road and der pike, which Mas'r mean to take?"
With all these evolutions, he contrived to keep the horses up to the top of their speed, until, between ten and eleven, their heels resounded on the gravel at the end of the balcony. Mrs. Shelby flew to the railings. "Is that you, Sam? Where are they?" "Mas'r Haley 's a-restin' at the tavern; he's drefful fatigued, Missis." "And Eliza, Sam?" "Wal, she's clar 'cross Jordan.
"But you don't for a moment think " "No, Mas'r Harry, I don't; but I feel quite sure as they've burked him, and got him away with them bars of gold. You see if they haven't now!"
At the sound of the familiar voice the fear passed from Dick's face. Memory had returned, and he smiled, though his body trembled as if with a chill. 'I'm starved, he said, 'and I have nothing with me. How long did I sleep, Mathews? 'Pretty near seven hours, Mas'r Dick. Here you are, sir feedin'-time, and the bugle's went.
Now, you know something, you can't help it." "Well, Mas'r," said Tom, "towards morning something brushed by me, and I kinder half woke; and then I hearn a great splash, and then I clare woke up, and the gal was gone. That's all I know on 't." The trader was not shocked nor amazed; because, as we said before, he was used to a great many things that you are not used to.
"Getting rid of all that warm water made me less soft; and when Mas'r Garcia got struggling again I give him two or three such wipes on the head as must have wound him up a bit; and then, after nearly having the boat over again, there we lay for hour after hour in the thick darkness, getting stiff as stiff, as we kep' one another from doing mischief.
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