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They told me at Guy's I'd fetch twenty-cold-on the slates. Ouh! It's comin' again." A second time he was cut down by the foot, as it were, and the straining bench rocked to and fro as I averted my eyes. It was the very point of perfection in the heart of an English May-day.
I should kill myself if I allowed myself to be duped; for I should be to blame, not you." Then we heard the humblest entreaties, the most fervent adjuration, not to deprive the country of such superior talents. The man spoke of patriotism, and Marcas uttered a significant "Ouh! ouh!" He laughed at his would-be patron.
"All night, you say, seh? Then we miss ouh Denver connections?" "You can bet to win on that," was the curt reply. "Damn!" said the ruddy-faced gentleman; and then in a lower tone: "I beg your pahdon, my deah Virginia; I was totally unaware of your presence." Winton threw off his overcoat.
And whilst you are givin' praise to youh Makeh for creatin' such a Gyarden of Eden, don't forget to thank him on youh bended knees for not putting anything oveh yondeh in ouh home lot to tempt these house-buildin', money-makin', schemin' Yankees that are swarming again oveh the land like anotheh plague of Egyptian locus'es." "These Yankees?" queried Ardea.
"Ah-h! and his friend the young gentleman who laid his hand to ouh plow and put the engine on the track last night?" "He is Mr. Winton a an artist, I believe; at least, that is what I gathered from what Mr. Adams said of him." Mr. Somerville Darrah laughed, a slow little laugh, deep in his chest. "Bless youh innocent soul he a picchuh painteh? Not in a thousand yeahs, my deah Virginia.
"Laid out theyuh lines across my prope'ty? Japheth, faveh me by riding down to the furnace and askin' Caleb Gordon if he will do me the honor to come up heah this evenin', if he can. I I it's twenty yeahs and mo' since I've troubled the law cou'ts of ouh po', Yankee-ridden country with any affai-ah of mine; and now well, I don't know I don't know," with a despondent shake of the leonine head.
Ouh! ouh!" came peals of such healthy and good-humored laughter from the soldiers that it infected the French involuntarily, so much so that the only thing left to do seemed to be to unload the muskets, explode the ammunition, and all return home as quickly as possible.
"There is no to be thankful for to me!" said Manuel. "How shall I leave you dreeft, dreeft all around the Banks? Now you are a fisherman eh, wha-at? Ouh! Auh!" He bent backward and forward stiffly from the hips to get the kinks out of himself. "I have not cleaned boat to-day. Too busy. They struck on queek. Danny, my son, clean for me." Harvey moved forward at once.
Dee'll drib d' English into d' sea, and wese t' hab ouh freedom, ouh freedom an' plenty lan' t' lib on." "Dat's it," shouted some one, "an' we gwine t' holp, suah!" The negroes were so intent upon their speaker that they did not perceive us until we were right among them, and even then for a few minutes, as we forced our way through the mob, no one knew us.
Misteh Winton, that is your train. I wish you good-morning and a pleasant journey. Come, Virginia, we shall be late to ouh breakfast." Winton walked back to the station at the heels of his captor, cudgeling his brain to devise some means of getting word to Adams.
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