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Mr. Middleton observed it, and forgetting for a moment the death of his friend, he slapped Mr. Miller on his shoulder, saying, "I tell you what, my boy; it’s a mighty mean wind that blows nobody any good fortin. Miss Kate warn’t sent to Kentuck for nothin’, and unless you’re a bigger logger-head than I think you be, you’ll try to find out what she come for, and how long she’s goin’ to stay." Mr.
You, señor," she spoke to Drew, "to you we owe a big debt. Come, Teodoro!" She caught at her brother and pulled him away. "What makes a kid go sour?" Kells asked of the shadows beyond rather than of Drew. "Johnny warn’t no real trouble ’fore he skinned off to ride with Howard. Sure he was always a wild one, but no more’n a lotta kids.
But he had never ceased his monotonous unwinding. “Thar hain’t no manner o’ doubt, marm,” he was saying, “thet he did hev the sympathy o’ the intire community ez far ez they was free to express it barrin’ a few. Fur he was a likely young chap, that warn’t no two opinions o’ that. Free with his money alluz ready to set up fur a friend.
"They stopped here, goin’ home to their place. My Lord! warn’t she a high-flyer! She done her hair like a tied-up horse-tail—my wife called it a Sikey knot—and it stood out a foot from her head. Some of the boys, kinder playful, wanted to throw a hat at it and see if it wouldn’t hang, but they refrained, out of respect to the feelin’s of the groom.
I’d plumb forget it many a time if it warn’t for this little tub. The identity of a woman is mighty apt to get mislaid when dooty compels her to assoome the pants cast aside by the nacheral head of the house in sickness or death. It’s ben six years now since paw’s done a thing but set ’round and wait for meals." Mrs. Yellett sighed laboriously. "Not that I’m holdin’ it agin him none.
“Lord yas honey, ’f you warn’t heah dat same Mista Grégor ’d be in Centaville ev’y Sunday, a raisin’ Cain. Humph I knows ’im.”
Seems like half of both them armies back east didn’t want to go home an’ sit down peaceful like now that they was through wi’ shootin’ at each other. No, siree, a right big herd o’ ’em was trailin’ out here. An’ he thought he could put name to the color of coat this young’un had had on his back, too. Only askin’ more than a man volunteered to tell, that warn’t neither manners nor wise.
He know dey warn’t gwine cross dat flat ’gin jis’ fu’ Sampson.” Hosmer had commenced to open his letters. Fanny with her elbows on the table, asked the boy with a certain uneasiness in her voice “Ain’t he coming at all to-day? Don’t he know all the work he’s got to do? His mother ought to make him.” “Don’t reckon.
When th’ army pulled out, th’ Apaches got it into their heads as how they finally licked us good an’ proper an’ this here was their country fur th’ takin’. Nearly was, too. "Then th’ Rebs got up on their high horse an’ said as how iffen Don Cazar warn’t with ’em, then he was agin ’em, an’ they would jus’ move in on him. He tol’ ’em to go ahead an’ try.
Looking towards her daughter from under the eaves of her sun-bonnet, she "’lowed she had hearn that Bad Water was hard on the skin, an’ that it warn’t much of a place arter all. Folks over thar war mostly half-livers."
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