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Bentley, "I have brought home a gentleman for supper." "Yassah, Misteh Ho'ace. I was jest agwine to open up de blin's." He lifted the wire screens and flung back the shutters, beamed on the rector as he relieved him of his hat, and noiselessly retired.
" Yassah," assented the negro, nodding his head. " Hashed brown potatoes." " Yassah." " Asparagus." " Yassah." " And a pot of coffee." Drouet turned to Carrie. " I haven't had a thing since breakfast. Just got in from Rock Island. I was going off to dine when I saw you." Carrie smiled and smiled. " What have you been doing?" he went on. " Tell me all about yourself. How is your sister?"
After his midday meal, Colonel Calvin Blount, wandering aimlessly and none too well content about the yard, came across one of his servants, who was in the act of unrolling the fresh bear hide and spreading it out to dry. He kicked idly at a fold in the hide. "Look here, Jim," he said suddenly, "Mr. Decherd killed this b'ah, didn't he?" "Yassah," said Jim.
"You were certainly dressed up last night, Sam!" "Yer lak dat suit I had on, sah?" "It was a great combination." "Yassah, dat's me, sah," the negro laughed. "I'se a great combination yassah!" He paused and threw his head back as if to recall the words. Then in a voice rich and vibrant with care-free joy he burst into song: "Yassah!"
"Boa'd and clo's an' whatever dey min' to give." "What do you do?" "Bring wood, wash dishes, and whatever dey wants me to." "How would you like to come up here for a while?" He had his eye on my target-rifle as he replied, "Yassah, I'd like it what sort o' gun yo' got?" I explained my firearm to him and let him handle it. His willingness to come grew. "Are you a pretty good boy, Lazarus?"
I'm going to advise you to do exactly what I would do if I were in your place." "Yassah." "If I were you, Sam, I wouldn't stay in this country. I'd go back to the land of my black fathers, to its tropic suns and rich soil. You can never be a full-grown man here. The North won't have you as such. The hotel wouldn't let you sleep under its roof, in spite of my protest that you were my body-servant.
Ben appeared in full blue cloth and brass buttons, on duty again as butler. "Yassah " "I'm glad to see you, Ben. You're feeling yourself again?" "Yassah. Praise God, I'se back at my place once mo', sah." The master lifted his hand in warning. "Take care of yourself now. No more risks. You're not as young as you once were." "Thankee, sah." "Ask Mrs. Lee to bring me the document on my desk.
"I hope there is a doctor on the train," said Uncle Tom. "Yassah," answered the black porter, who had been listening with evident relish, "right good doctah Doctah Lov'ring." Even Aunt Mary laughed. "Peter," asked Honora, "can't you get Judge Brice to send you on to New York this winter on law business? Then you could come up to Sutcliffe to see me." "I'm afraid of Miss Turner," declared Peter.
He could defend himself so nobly from the insinuations of the suspicious that they would apologize for the wrong unwittingly done his character. John had not lived so well since he could remember. "Julius, you're a handy man in war!" he exclaimed after a hearty supper on fried chicken. "Yassah I manage ter git 'long, sah."
Once again the railroad raid became a great, thrilling adventure in which he was to play a part. "He bowed and left the house. "Sam!" called Mr. Beecham. "Yassah!" answered the negro boy who was mounted upon another horse. "You stay there until this gentleman is across the river." "Yassah." Tom mounted and they started down the road. He looked back, saw Marjorie at the window, and waved.
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