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Well, sah, I didn't like de 'pearance ob dat man, an' I jes' t'ought I'd get anoder look at 'im, but he stayed a mighty long time, sah, an' bime'by I had to go to de tool-house, an' when I gets back the kerridge was gone." "Could you describe the man, Uncle Mose?" the coroner asked.
Actuated by impulse only, I inquired for "Miss Raynor." "I reckon," said she, "you's got to de wrong house. Dat lady doan' live hyar." "Well, then," I asked quickly, "is there a lady here named Mother Anastasia?" The woman showed thirty-two perfectly developed teeth. "Oh, dat's she? You means de sister. She's hyar, yes, sah. Want to see her?" I stated that I certainly desired to see her.
I'm so stiff an' I'm so nearly broke t' pieces, dat if I turn mah head around it suah will twist offen mah body. No, sah! No, indeedy, sah, I ain't gwine t' turn 'round. But am yo' suah dat mah mule Boomerang ain't hurted?" "No, he's not hurt a bit, and I'm sure you are not. I didn't strike you hard, for I had almost stopped my machine. Try to get up. I'm positive you'll find yourself all right.
The negro scratched his head, shuffling his bare feet uneasily on the dirt floor. "Yas, sah, Mister Knox," he admitted with reluctance. "I's sure powerful sorry, sah, but I was de boy whut plugged yer. Yer see, sah, it done happened dis-a-way," and his black face registered genuine distress.
"If they continue on the course they are followin', guv'nor," he concluded, "they'll nevah reach Santa Fe. And I have every reason to believe that The Terror plans to raid them." "And what," asked the governor pleasantly, "do you expect me to do?" "I thought, sah," Kid Wolf replied, "that yo' would let me return to them with a company of yo' soldiers."
Saturday night's both black and white-are tried first. The suffrage prisoners strain their ears to hear the pitiful pleas of these unfortunates, most of whom come to the bar without counsel or friend. Scraps of evidence are heard. JUDGE: "You say you were not quarreling, Lottie?" LOTTIE: "I sho' do yo' hono'. We wuz jes singin'-we wuz sho' nuf, sah." JUDGE: "Singing, Lottie?
You said you'd keep an eye on our boat while we were gone, didn't you? It isn't much of a beauty, but you see it's all we've got; and we calculate that it'll just have to carry both of us to Orleans," remarked Maurice, as they started away. "Don't yuh think of any harm acomin' tuh the boat, sah. I'll give yuh my word they wont.
His usual "Good-night, sah!" as I went up my ship's ladder had a more cordial sound than on previous occasions. I kept my word to Jacobus. I haunted his home. He was perpetually finding me there of an afternoon when he popped in for a moment from the "store."
Women with children at their breasts, and mothers bowed with sorrow, had sought this city in their agony. Young men and old had come hither, striving to keep back the thoughts of dear ones left behind, whom they might never see again. And by the thousands and tens of thousands they had passed from here to the places of blood beyond. "Kerridge, sah! Kerridge!"
I was pacing the deck briskly, for the wind was horribly keen, when Pitt suddenly called out, "I say, massa!" "Hullo," I replied. "Sah," he cried, "I smell ice!"
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