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Pipe and Half King won't stand for the singin', prayin' redskins, especially when they've got all these cattle and fields of grain." "Wetzel said the same." "Hev you seen Wetzel?" "Yes; he rescued a girl from Jim Girty, and returned her to us." "That so? I met Wetzel and Jack Zane back a few miles in the woods.
Mass' Ed'ards, he say dat de meetin's dey makes coloured folks onsettled; and dey don't hoe de corn good if dey has too much prayin' to do." "And does he forbid them then? doesn't he let you have prayer-meetings?" "'Tain't Mr. Edwards alone, Miss Daisy," said Margaret, speaking low.
There were no pine knots and no attempts at conversation till the leader asked: "Buckeye Pete, have you anything to say before you join your Maker?" "Ain't no use prayin' for yourself," spoke up another voice. "Better pray for the soul of the man you sent to Purgatory, and for the well-bein' of the other innocent man you tried to destroy." "What's that?"
"It was the student, Graves, what brought Daddy the money," she burst out with a vivid blush. "No, the student, Graves, had nothing to do with it," was the grim reply. "He's a-been prayin' since Daddy went away that air somethin'," Tess said stubbornly. Professor Young rose then seated himself again. He had come for something else, something that meant work and satisfaction for him.
And in the night sometimes he'd come and git me to come and lay by him where he could put his arm round my neck, and feel me, like as if he wanted comp'ny. Well, now, that wasn't much like God, was it? And when he thought I was asleep, I could hear him prayin', 'O merciful Savior! and things like that; and if he was God, who could he pray to? It wasn't sense, was it?
Some of the dancers kneeled, some stood, some sat still with curious looks upon their faces, while others fled as in terror. The fiddler ran off into the kitchen saying: "Lord a marcy, what de matter. What's dat mean? Prayin' in a dance hall! Dis beats anyting dis niggar ever saw." Jasper Very continued to pray with loud voice and great unction.
So the Lad gave it up, and, putting his hands together behind the dog's head, whispered: "Oh, dear Lord, we're lost, me and Collie. Please send Father and Peter Fiddle with the boat to find us. Please don't let us get drownded or don't let the Bawkins get us. And please don't mind Collie not prayin' right, 'cause he's only a dog, but he's lost, too; and please bring us safe home.
"Don't much b'lieve I could," said he, thoughtfully. "I hev been t' meeting but I hain't never been no great hand fer prayin'." "'T wouldn't sound right nohow, fer me t' pray," said my father, "I got s' kind o' rough when I was in the army." "'Fraid it 'll come a leetle unhandy fer me," said D'ri, with a look of embarrassment, "but I don't never shirk a tough job ef it hes t' be done."
"I was upo' the tap o' the Nose jist as the sun rase, luikin' aboot me, an' awa' upo' the Boar's Tail I saw twa angels sayin' their prayers. Nae doobt they war prayin' for the haill warl' i' the quaiet o' the mornin' afore the din begun. May be ane o' them was that auld priest wi' the lang name i' the buik o' Genesis, 'at hed naither father nor mither, puir man! him 'at gaed aboot blissin' fowk."
But I reckon it don't soothe me. I reckon it rubs me the wrong way. There's times, when I hears a body prayin', that I wishes we was Papists again and worshipped images, that I might throw stones at 'em!" She paused, looked up into Geake's devouring eyes, and added, with a poor attempt at a laugh: "So you see, I'm wicked, an' don't want to be saved." Then the man broke forth: "Saved?
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