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He turned a quick, wild look at the fire, seized me by the arm and with a gaze of deepest gratitude, asked: "You tryin' save her?" "I'll do anything I can." "Oh, dass right!" His face was full of mingled joy and pain. "You go yondeh mek yo' possible!" We were hurrying to the street "Oh, yass, faw God's sake go, mek yo' possible!" "But, Manouvrier, you must come too! Where's your wife?
It was nearly over and the minister was about to announce the Doxology, when old Deacon Swift arose. "Des' a minute, brothahs," he said. "I want to mek a 'fession. I was too ha'd an' too brash in my talk de othah night, an' de Lawd visited my sins upon my haid. He struck me in de bosom o' my own fambly. My own son went wrong. Pray fu' me!" Polly Jackson was a model woman.
"D'ri," said he, quietly, as he threw some wood on the fire, "they smell mutton. Mek the guns ready. We may git a few pelts. There's a big bounty on 'em here 'n York State." We all stood about the fire listening as the wolves came nearer. "It 's the sheep thet brings 'em," said my father. "Quite a consid'able number on 'em, tew," said D'ri, as he stood cleaning the bore of his rifle.
'Who d'you think's to mek gravy anuff, if you're to baste people's gownds wi' it? 'Well, suggested John, humbly, 'you should wet the bottom of the duree a bit, to hold it from slippin'. 'Wet your granny! returned the cook; a retort which she probably regarded in the light of a reductio ad absurdum, and which in fact reduced John to silence.
Then she answered, "Chil', you do' know de dev'ment dey is in dis worl'." "But," retorted the child, "my pappy ain' up to no dev'ment, 'case he got 'uligion an' bin baptised." "Oom-m," groaned Sistah Gibson, "dat don' mek a bit o' diffunce. Who is any mo' ma'yin' men den de preachahs demse'ves?
'I should regard any such means of gettin' into a maid's good graces as being despisable, he said, after a while. 'Very well, my Christian friend, the farmer's wife retorted, with a laugh. 'Them as mek bread without barm must look to spoil the batch. 'I was niver of a flatterin' turn of mind, said Thistlewood. 'You niver was, John, responded Mrs.
During the absence of Mahomet I received a very polite message from Mek Nimmur, accompanied by a present of twenty pounds of coffee, with an invitation to pay him a visit. His country lay between the Settite River and the Bahr Salaam; thus without his invitation I might have found it difficult to traverse his territory. So far all went well.
"Ver' glad mek you known to me, Citizen Reetchie." The fourth gentleman was likewise French, and called Gignoux. The Citizen Gignoux made some sort of an impression on me which I did not stop to analyze.
Mek Nimmur had been ignorant of the existence of copper, but he informed me that gold dust was common in the sand of most of the ravines, and that, if I would remain in his country, I might discover considerable quantities. I informed him that I had already discovered the existence of both gold and lead. After a long and satisfactory conversation, I made my salaam, and retired.
Mas' Madison Mixon, hisse'f, was a mighty 'dulgent so't o' man, an' he liked a laugh bettah dan anyone in de worl'. Well, my man could mek him laugh, an' dat was enough fu' him. I used to lectuah dat man much 'bout his onshifless ways, but he des went erlong, twell bimeby hyeah come de wah an' evahthing was broke up.
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