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And I aim to put him where he belongs." "Thank you for helping us," said the girl's mother. "You're right welcome, ma'am." And, raising his hat, Lorry turned and rode to where the man lay. The car crept up the slope. Lorry watched it until it had topped the ridge. Then he dismounted and turned the man over. "What you got to say about my turnin' you loose?" he queried as the other sat up.
Monsieur Profond held out the cheque. "The English are awful funny about pictures," he said. "So are the French, so are my people. They're all awful funny." "I don't understand you," said Soames stiffly. "It's like hats," said Monsieur Profond enigmatically, "small or large, turnin' up or down just the fashion. Awful funny."
She might have pictured in her dreams the drama that is ever bein' enacted on the pages of history of the sorely oppressed masses turnin' on the oppressors, and drivin' them, with themselves, out to ruin. Helpin' the poor to better lives, helpin' them to justice. Takin' the small hands of the children, and leadin' them away from the overcrowded prisons and penitentaries toward better lives
"Arter all," he continues, still speaking in half soliloquy, "I don't think stayin's his game. There's somethin' else at the bottom on't." "Can Uraga have sent him back on any errand?" "No, that ain't it eyther. More like he's good on a errand o' his own. I reckon I ken guess it now. The traitur intends turnin' thief as well doin' a leetle bit o' stealin' along wi' his treason.
There was a cullud procession before me which was escortin a elderly bald-hedded Afrikin to his home in Bates Alley. This distinguished Afrikin Brother had just returned from Lybery, and in turnin a corner puty suddent I hed stumbled and placed my hed agin his stummick in a rather strengthy manner. "Do you wish to impede the progress of this procession, sah?" "Certainly not, by all means!
What's Mark broke sence I've been sick?" "Nothing at all, aunt Miranda." "Why, what's the matter with him? Gittin' lazy, ain't he? How 's John turnin' out?" "He's going to be the best of us all." "I hope you don't slight things in the kitchen because I ain't there. Do you scald the coffee-pot and turn it upside down on the winder-sill?" "Yes, aunt Miranda."
"Show the gen'lman to the cowyard, and giv' him cart number 1." "Isn't Grant here?" I said. "Perhaps Ulyssis wouldn't mind my turnin' in with him." "Do you know the Gin'ral?" inquired Mr. Spotswood. "Wall, no, not 'zacky; but he'll remember me. His brother-in-law's Aunt bought her rye meal of my uncle Levi all one winter. My uncle Levi's rye meal was "
""You-all don't know me," goes on this Spanish Bill, as I sets up an' blinks at him some foggy an' blurred, "an' I don't know you" which we-alls allows, outen p'liteness, is a dead loss to both. "But my name's Spanish Bill, an' I'm turnin' monte in the Bank Exchange.
"Who yeh talkin' to, Wilson?" he demanded. His voice was anger-toned. "Who yeh talkin' to? Yeh th' derndest sentinel why hello, Henry, you here? Why, I thought you was dead four hours ago! Great Jerusalem, they keep turnin' up every ten minutes or so! We thought we'd lost forty-two men by straight count, but if they keep on a-comin' this way, we'll git th' comp'ny all back by mornin' yit.
"Now, look-a-heah, Brudder 'Bijah," said he, "wot's I gwine to do 'bout dis bizness? I done promised ter pay dis money on de fus' day ob de comin' month, an' dar's six dollars ob it dat I ain't got yit." "An' aint dar any way ter git it?" asked 'Bijah. "Yaas, dar's one way," said Grandison, "I's been turnin' dis matter ober an' ober in my min', an' dar's only one way. I mought sell apples.
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