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Did he send ye?" "The Professor?" "Who else should I mean?" "Wall, he didn't, then. I seed a couple of blokes in the alley jist now, and they 'quired for you." "Why didn't you send 'em up?" and the woman laughed in a way that revealed her ragged teeth and unwholesome gums. "They'll be back soon 'nough," answered the man. "I've an idee they mean mischief.
"Well, yer see," said Sam, proceeding gravely to wash down Haley's pony, "I 'se 'quired what yer may call a habit o' bobservation, Andy. It's a very 'portant habit, Andy; and I 'commend yer to be cultivatin' it, now yer young. Hist up that hind foot, Andy. Yer see, Andy, it's bobservation makes all de difference in niggers.
Bertram." "Ah, Mrs. Meadowsweet, you must be only assuming this sympathetic tone. For, if all reports are true, you and Miss Beatrice are wealthy." Mrs. Meadowsweet's eyes beamed lovingly on her hostess. "We have enough and to spare," she responded. "Thank the good God we have enough and to spare. Meadowsweet saw to that, poor man." "Your husband was in business?" gently in quired Mrs. Bertram.
"Mahs' Junius," said Uncle Isham, his black eyes shining brighter and brighter as he spoke, "dar's culled people, an' white folks too in dis yer county who'd put on dere bes' clothes an' black dere shoes, an' skip off wid alacrousness, to do de wus kin' o sin, dat dey knowed for sartin would send 'em down to de deepes' and hottes' gullies ob de lower regions, but nuffin in dis worl' could make one o' dem people go 'quirin' 'bout ole miss when she didn't want to be 'quired about."
He set down his barrow, and, putting upon himself the refined aspect that a conversation with a lady re- quired, spoke to Bathsheba over the gate. "You'll never see Fanny Robin no more use nor principal ma'am." "Why?" "Because she's dead in the Union." "Fanny dead never!" "Yes, ma'am." "What did she die from?"
After they had scrambled into the old freight cars and stowed them selves away, Si looked over his squad and counted it. "Have you got them all aboard, Sergeant?" in quired Lieut. Bowersox. "I've got the right number, sir," Si answered, saluting; "and if they ain't all the same men they're just as good." "All right," returned the officer.
My throat of war be turned, Which quired with my drum into a pipe! Small as an eunuch's or the virgin voice That babies lulls asleep! The smiles of knaves Tent in my cheeks; and school-boy's tears take up The glasses of my sight! A beggar's tongue Make motion through my lips; and my arm'd knees Who bowed but in my stirrup, bend like his That hath received an alms.
"Wal, you see," said Sam, "I just 'quired whar the horse was seen last; and then I went thar, and sat on a rock; and just axed mysel', if I was a horse, whar would I go, and what would I do? And then I went, and found him."
He 'lowed ter me ez he fund her a-standin' by the fodder-stack a-pullin' off'n it. An' he 'quired round, an' he never hearn o' no owner. I reckon he never axed outside o' Lonesome," he added, cynically. He puffed industriously at his pipe for a few moments; then continued: "Wa'al, he 'lowed he couldn't feed the critter fur fun.
At this announcement Judge Merlin started and looked at Ishmael, but the young man made a sign that the judge should say nothing that might interrupt the thread of Katie's narrative. Katie continued: "And de offercers ob de law tuk possession ob de castle to 'quire inter who was de murderers ob de poor gal. But de more dey 'quired inter it, de more dey couldn't find it out!
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