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Mr. Burton was also progressing, as the Yankees say, with the sister; Sparks had booked himself as purchaser of military stores enough to make the campaign of the whole globe; and we were thus all evidently fulfilling our various vocations, and affording perfect satisfaction to our entertainers.
The general finished his bottle of wine before he turned savagely upon them. "You are friends of the Gringo Yeager. Not so?" he accused. It was too late for a denial now. Threewit admitted the charge. "So. Maldito! What are you doing here? I've had enough of you Yankees!" he exploded. Before Threewit had more than begun his explanations he brushed aside the director's words.
But he was no spy; he was caught in a Yankee uniform an' an' he saved my father, as you said that settled it with me." "It turned our boys agin you, Jack." "Yes, an' the Yankees were agin me already that made all the worl' agin me, an' it's been agin me ever since they made me an outlaw." The old man softened: "How was it, Jack? I knowed you was driven to it."
These Yankee shells are so loving that sometimes they spray themselves in little pieces all over a fellow, like a shower of rice over a bride at a wedding." "How long do you think the Yankees will keep it up?" asked Dick, putting indignation in his tone. "Haven't they any respect for the night?" "Not a bit. That fellow Grant is a pounder.
But the hearts of the members were as flint, and their talk was incredibly wicked. Not a penny would they give to help the accursed Yankees. It served them right. If they had stayed in Connecticut, where they belonged, they would have kept out of harm's way.
The Yankees have thoroughly impressed the value and the nobility of labour. I asked one of the employes at a diamond mine what he thought of the Americans. His reply was, "Americans and work were born on the same day." The labour of opening up the virgin land was only one phase.
The Yankees put an ugly shot tower on the brink of the Horseshoe at the beginning of that era, and they are about to consummate the barbarism, by throwing a wire bridge, if the British government is consenting, over the river, just below the American Fall.
Skipper Hornblower, as he was then called, had the go-ahead in him, and commanded the schooner Dash, owned by one Squire Burgle, who carried on a strictly legitimate trade with the Yankees over the line, though he always gave out that he hated them as a people, nor would ever sell a pennyworth of their notions which he denounced as worthless.
She always came out best at last, though her hair was toffy-colored and her eyes a washed-out blue, and Aunt Perrine was of the color of a mild Indian. Two of Mis' Browst's sons-in-law had been "burned out" by the Yankees; another was in the Union army: these trump-cards of misery she did now so produce and flourish and weep over that she utterly routed the enemy, reduced her to stolid silence.
"Now, my master had three boys and two girls; his wife, Elizabeth, was about like the ordinary missus; Master Davis was good, but positive; he didn't allow other whites to bother his slaves. "When the war came, his two boys went first, finally Master Davis went; he and one son never returned. "The Yankees killed cows, etc., as they went along but did not destroy any property 'round where I was.
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