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"She must 'a' sneaked up an' anchored mighty early this mornin'," pursued Cap'n Abernethy, true to his conversational principles. "Is she in the bay or in the canal?" "She looks like a mighty toney kind o' vessel," said Cap'n Abernethy. "If I was to make a guess I'd say she was one of them craft that sails herself along when she wants to with one of these newfangled gasoline engines."
Think of the hopes, the aspirations, the blisses, the sorrows, the little world that once was here all gone except Uncle Toney. In my childhood I used to come here and go with him to the graves where we have been to-day, and have sat by them for hours listening to the stories he delights to tell of my grandfather and mother, until their very appearance seems familiar to my vision.
Yes, young massa, I been live long time here. Me is mity old. All dem what was here when I comed wid ole massa is dead long time. Yes, dare aint one on em livin now, and dare chillin is old." "I shall be sure to come," said the young man, "and suppose I bring with me these ladies?" "Neber you do dat, massa. I knows young folks ways too well for dat. Toney may talk, but dey neber will listen.
"Farewell, Uncle Toney," said the gentleman, shaking hands with the old negro. Alice had walked on. "O! you needn't say farewell so sorry, you'll come back. I sees him. You'll come back. Eberybody who comes to dis country if he does go way he's sure to come back, ticlar when he once find putty gall like Miss Alice, ya! ya!" laughed the old man. "You'll come back. I knows it."
"`I give in, said Toney. "`Come along then, said his visitor. "Toney crawled out and up the ladder of the main hatchway. He found that he was on board a brigantine, a rakish-looking craft, with several officers standing aft by the captain, and a numerous crew, among whom he saw Joe Gubbins.
True, the lady knew nothing of my encounter with the bully. Ha! Antoine then. Had he not come ashore? Was he ? Scipio anticipated the question I was about to put. His face became sad as he recommenced speaking. "Ah! young mass'r, Mamselle 'Genie be in great 'stress dis mornin all de folks be in great 'stress. Mass'r Toney! Poor Mass'r Toney." "The steward, Antoine? What of him?
In the midst of a great deal about the mess, and the fellows, and the boys, and the others, and an inexplicable fuss there is about a speculation the mess entered into with some illicit dealer for an additional supply, not of liquor, but of sugar, which I believe was detected, and which covers pages of badly written and worse spelled manuscript, not another distinct allusion to the French boy, not near so much as to Toney or Wimple or Scroop, or big Wallis or little Wallis.
"`If that's your notion you'll stay where you are, said his visitor, and he slammed the door and bolted it. "Toney was a determined fellow, but there was one thing he couldn't stand, and that was hunger. He got worse and worse. He could not sleep, and he could not shout out. By the time his visitor came again he was as meek as a lamb. "`Are you going to join or are you not? was the question.
Ours was the Mayfair district: Wilson and I lived in Park Lane in those days, whilst Captain Scott occupied Grosvenor Street! He had his own little table covered with "toney" green linoleum, and also had a multiplicity of little shelves on which to keep his pipes, tobacco, cigars, and other household gods.
The Society is not asked to disseminate antislavery doctrines, but simply to be even-handed between master and slave, and, since they have recommended Sambo and Toney to be obedient to Mr. Legree, to remind him in turn that he also has duties toward the bodies and souls of his bondmen.
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