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Those don't grow handily on trees. I have only three left." "Yes, suh," Drew accepted it with respect. "I'm to stay put until relieved, suh?" "Yes. Better take someone to spell you. I don't want any misses." Back at the scout fire Drew collected Boyd. This was an assignment the boy could share.
"Jock Drones. Don't yo' know me?" "Jock Drones?" Rasba cried, staring. "Why, Sho! Hit is! Lawse an' I found yo' right yeah thisaway!" "Yassuh," Jock turned away under that bright gaze, "but I'm goin' back, Parson! I'm goin' back to stand trial, suh!
That was pride, and most reprehensible. But second he thought of Mr. Canter and of Nancy, and that was not pride. "Four seventy-five!" he cried. "Thank you, suh." "Now fur it, young uns!" said the wag, and the crowd howled with merriment. "Five hundred!" snapped Mr. Colfax. He was growing angry. But Stephen was from New England, and poor, and he thought of the size of his purse.
Then at request he drew a rough sketch of the island and its approaches. Forrest studied it. "Something to keep in mind. But I want to know that it's clear. You boys picket it. If there's any Union movement about, report it at once!" "Yes, suh."
Altogether, suh, we shall expend at this point mo' than mo' than one million of dollars;" and the colonel threw back his head and gazed at the ceiling, his lips computing imaginary sums. "Befo' these improvements are complete it will be necessary, of course, to take care of the enormous crowds that will flock in for a restin'-place.
"Delicious, suh; I have not tasted such Madeira since the wah. In my cellar at home, suh, I once had some old Madeira of '28 that was given to my father, the late General John Caarter, by old Judge Thornton. You, of course, know that wine, suh. Ah! I see that you do."
Was this but one more of those thousand voices, harsh and gentle, rough and tender, to which I had listened in vain this age past? The black face was hovering over me now, and in an agony of apprehension I reached up and felt its honest roughness. Then I could have wept for joy. "Mammy Lucy!" "Yes, Marse Dick?" "Where where is Miss Dolly?" "Now, Marse Dick, doctah done say you not t' talk, suh."
I know you're gwine ter do de bes' you kin fer me, an' I'm sorry I can't he'p you no mo' wid it; but ef dere should be any accident, er ef you can't git me out er here, don' bother yo' min' 'bout it no mo', suh, an' don' git yo'se'f ixcited, fer you know de doctuh says, suh, dat you can't stan' ixcitement; but jes' leave me in de han's er de Lawd, suh, He'll look after me, here er hereafter.
He searched long in vain, because his hands trembled, and he was nervous under the eyes of this great personage who stood unmoved and looked calmly at him. Finally the missive was found and produced, though not before the perspiration was standing thick on Silas's brow. The head waiter took the sheet. "Ve'y well, suh, ve'y well.
Instantly his voice was lowered to a honeyed conversational pitch as he came to the edge of the porch and held out a large, fat, white hand, into which Everett laid his own by courtesy perforced. "I'm delighted to see you, Mr. Everett, suh, delighted!" he boomed. "And in such evident improved health.
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