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I'd ate the remain of my days wid not'ing but a spoon to obleege ye." "As for you, Pliny, and your son here, you have known us from children. Not a word must pass the lips of either, as to what you see now pull, but with great care, lest the rope break." The men did as ordered, raising their load from the ground, a foot or two at a time.
With an exulting laugh and an obscene oath, Dupont pushed out the canoe, and they got away into the moonlight. No word was spoken for some distance, but Dupont kept giving grunts of satisfaction. "You got the ten t'ousan' each in cash or cheque, eh? The cheque or the money-hein?" "I've got nothing," answered Lygon. Dupont dropped his paddle with a curse. "You got not'ing!
"Massa Pedro," said Quashy, who would have been glad to have the recollection of ghosts totally banished from his mind, "I's oftin hear ob de Incas, but I knows not'ing about dem. Who is dey? whar dey come fro?"
An' I mus' do it," he rejoined, with an emphasis there was no mistaking. "You can show me dat way?" She went to a drawer and took out a piece of paper. Then, with a point of blackened stick, as he watched her and listened, she swiftly drew his route for him. "Yes, I get it in my head," he said. "I go dat way, but I wish I wish it was dat queeck way. I have no fear, not'ing.
After some conversation, he said that he had come for the express purpose of taking Hester to see her father. "But not to talk to him," he added quickly "not eben to make you'self known to him, for if you did, not'ing would keep 'im quiet, an' you an' he would be parted for eber. Mind dat for eber!"
"You're cold," said Peace, a great pity surging through her breast as she saw the swollen, purple hands trying to hide under ragged sleeves of a pitifully thin coat. "Ver' col'," repeated the beggar, finding her tongue. "And hungry?" "Not'ing to eat today."
"Then don't you know anything about what is in the Bible? don't you know about Jesus?" "Reckon don't know not'ing, missis." "About Jesus?" said I again. "'Clar, missis, dis nigger don't know not'ing, but de rice and de corn. Missis talk to Darry; he most knowin' nigger on plantation; knows a heap." "There!" exclaimed Preston, "that will do.
With an exulting laugh and an obscene oath, Dupont pushed out the canoe, and they got away into the moonlight. No word was spoken for some distance, but Dupont kept giving grunts of satisfaction. "You got the ten t'ousan' each in cash or check, eh? The check or the money hein?" "I've got nothing," answered Lygon. Dupont dropped his paddle with a curse. "You got not'ing!
With an exulting laugh and an obscene oath, Dupont pushed out the canoe, and they got away into the moonlight. No word was spoken for some distance, but Dupont kept giving grunts of satisfaction. "You got the ten t'ousan' each in cash or cheque, eh? The cheque or the money-hein?" "I've got nothing," answered Lygon. Dupont dropped his paddle with a curse. "You got not'ing!
"Praise de Lord foreber!" shouted the negro; "I neber 'speck to see dat sight, while I not'ing but ole brack Bingo! I can lib to de end ob my days wid joy at de sight ob dat! it am next to finding poor Phillis hersef. Pray, missy, did you find dat in some accidental cotton bag? or am Bosting only the Christian name for wicked old Kintuck?
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