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The younger Sartins gorged silently on this, all unreproved by a preoccupied mother. Mrs. Sartin, indeed, became quite voluble and told Christopher how she was now first dresser at the Kings Theatre and how Jessie was just taken on in the wardrobe room. "Which is uncertain hours," Mrs.
"'FIVE DOLLARS a ! His mouth dropped open like a main hatch. "'Sartin, I says. 'And two slabs of johnnycake at five dollars a slab. And a cup of coffee at five dollars a cup. And "'You're crazy! he sputters, jumpin' up. "'Not much, I ain't. I've been settin' at your feet larnin' high finance, that's all. You don't seem to be onto the real inwardness of this deal.
So she asked again if I wur quite sure that you wur happy? And I said I wur mortally sartin of it. So then she fetched a deep sigh from the very bottom of her heart, and said she wur glad of it, very glad of it indeed. For, said she, my good Mary, for she often calls me good, which I be very sure is her kindness and not my desarts, my good Mary, said she, I don't wonder that you do love Mr.
No more do these sky-blue chaps as be swimming around us. They be now lookin' for 'em, mighty sharp, as ye see; an' they'll be sartin to scare 'em up in three shakes o' a shark's tail." "What other sort of fish?" inquired William. "Flyin'-fish, lad; same's you an' I made our first meal on, when we wur wellnigh starvin'. There's a school not far off.
"God send it, gal, for he's had a tougher, sartin. Three days, now, nater's bin tugging away for him; and I'd hate to see him die now, arter all; and being the colonel's recommind, too; for Isaac says the colonel injuncted him strongly to take car o' him; and I'd do any thing to oblege sech a man as him. He didn't appear to have his senses, I reckon?"
An' afther consitherin' the matter over, A take this iday fur a foundation: The furst Adam was created in a sartin place; then he sinned in a sartin place. An' A've gethered up proofs, an' proofs, an' proofs How far is it fram Jerusalem till Bethlehem, Tammas?" "Nearly six miles." "A knowed the places must be convanient.
"Yes; I heard him tell the captain that you were very quick, and would be a good navigator but I can't get over the loss of poor Tommy Dott; he was a little scampish, that's sartin, but still he was a merry, kind-hearted boy too good for the sharks, at all events. You must feel his loss, Mr Keene, for you were always together." "No, I don't, Bob," replied I.
"Sartin, sartin, Mas'r George; you go 'long, and I'll get ye up a bit o' chicken, or some sich; ye won't have many more suppers wid yer poor old aunty." "The Grass Withereth the Flower Fadeth" Life passes, with us all, a day at a time; so it passed with our friend Tom, till two years were gone.
Burnap may do what she can to help you." The prisoner sullenly attended the woman into the house, and Tom followed as far as the front door. "Now, what am I gwine to do?" said Joe. "You've got me into a right smart scrape." "I thought I had got you out of one," replied Tom. "Do you intend to remain here?" "Sartin not, now. I must clear." "So must I; and we have no time to spare.
"In a sartin way he are a friend, but I never see him till this afternoon. I know his uncle up to Pilot Knob, and when I see him riding by the house and looking at it as though he'd like to say something if he wasn't afraid, I told him to 'light, and asked him wasn't he looking for Merrick. That's me, you know.
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