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He was made a lord of for sellin' our parliament, and now his son, the present lord, is leadin' a blessed life abroad, for he never shows his face here." "He is an absentee, then?" "To be sure he is, and so is every man of them now, barrin' an odd one.
Kitty looked after the two until they disappeared through the smaller door, then turned and faced Kling. "I know just what's happened, Otto a baby a month old could see it all. That man is up against it for the first time. He'd rather die than beg, and he'll keep on sellin' his traps until there's nothin' left but the clothes he stands in.
"Dey wuz a scene where us guys wuz sellin' papes, an' anudder guy comes along, and t'rows a handful of money in de street he had so much he didn't know what t' do wit' it dat wuz in de picture," he explained. "I wuz in de scene." "Was it real money?" asked Paul. "Naw nottin' but tin," and the tone expressed the disappointment that had been experienced.
"Abby Jane Ketchum herself, when she went round to the back door day before yesterday afternoon to ask if Mr. Ware would buy some of her soap. You know she's sellin' soap to get a prize." "Where was the woman?" "She was sittin' on the back porch with Mr. Ware, and she up and run when she see Abby Jane, and Mr.
"Why don't ye shoot!" she asked, scornfully. "I hev heerd that the Stetsons have got to makin war on women-folks, but I never believed it afore." Then she turned to the miller. "Kin I git some more meal hyeh?" she asked. "Or have ye stopped sellin' to folks on t'other side?" she added, in a tone that sought no favor. "You kin have all ye want," said old Gabe, quietly.
"He has his busy times," said Mose, grinning broadly. "See you've got the boys with their backs up, Chester," said Bijah. "Some of us are sick of tyranny," cried Chester; "you kin tell that to Jethro Bass when you go back, if he's got time to listen to you buyin' and sellin' out of railroads."
There wasn't nothin' foolish about cuttin' out the nightgown, for I'd made up my mind 't if it looked too awful fancy on 't I'd just put it away for the oldest girl when she gets married, but o' course 'f I can't get a husband stands to reason there'll be no oldest girl, 'n' all that ten cent gingham 't Shores is sellin' off't five 'd be a dead waste o' good stuff." Mrs. Lathrop chewed her clover.
But it turned out she was only starved an' scared half to death. She hadn't been harmed. I reckon she was then about fourteen years old. Benson's idee, he said, was to use her in his den sellin' drinks an' the like. But I never went much on Jackrabbit's word. Bland seen the kid right off and took her bought her from Benson. You can gamble Bland didn't do thet from notions of chivalry.
We neber stayed long, tho', fer lots of de niggers runned 'way to de Free State an' Marse Andrew didn' lak dat. "It was when he brought us back to Huntsville dat I was sol'. All de white folks was a gittin' scared dey was gwineter lose dey slaves an' dere was a pow'ful lot er nigger sellin' goin' on den. Marse Ewing bought me frum him an' car'ied me to his plantation near Aberdeen, Mississippi.
"Yes," he said awkwardly, with a slight relaxation of his aggressive attitude; "yes, in course it's more bang-up style, but it don't pay Rosey it don't pay. Yer's the Pontiac that oughter be bringin' in, ez rents go, at least three hundred a month, don't make her taxes. I bin thinkin' seriously of sellin' her."