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She's worth two thousand. I've been in the business twenty yea's, and I neve' seen her equal. Give me a bid, Mr. Mr. you have the advantage of me, suh." "Eight hundred and thirty-five!" said Stephen. "Now, Mr. Jerkins, now, suh! we've got twenty me' to sell." "Eight fifty!" said Mr. Jerkins. "Eight sixty!" said Stephen, and they cheered him. Mr. Jenkins took his cigar out of his teeth, and stared.
"Now I know you," said Malachi White, looking intently at the colonel. "I ain't as strong on faces as some people, though I reckon I'm right strong on 'em, too, but I'm pow'ful strong on recollectin' hear'in', that is, the voice and the trick of it. It was fo' yea's ago when you stopped at my house. You had a curious trick of pronouncin' r's when they wasn't no r's.
Not that he was eva one to push, and I don't know as he so much as spoke of it, afta we left the hotel two yea's ago; but I presume it wa'n't out of his mind a single minute.
He records Codrington's leap on his grey Arab into the breast-work of the Great Redoubt; Lacy Yea's passionate energy in forcing his clustered regiment to open out; Miller's stentorian "Rally" in reforming the Scots Greys after the Balaclava charge; Clarke losing his helmet in the same charge, and creating amongst the Russians, as he plunged in bareheaded amongst their ranks, the belief that he was sheltered by some Satanic charm.
Mastah Tolah had about 500 acres, so they tell me, and he had a lot of cows and ho'ses and oxens, and he was a big fa'mer. Ah've done about evahthing in mah life, blacksmith and stone mason, ca'penter, evahthing but brick-layin'. Ah was a blacksmith heah fo' 36 yea's. Learned it down at Tolah's. "Ah stayed on the plantation during the wah, and jes' did what they tol' me. Ah was 21 then.
He bought a piece of land he'e, so as to be in the pine woods, and then we built this house." "When did you say you came?" "Two yea's ago, this summa." "Well! What did you do befoa you built this house?" "We camped the first summa." "You camped? In a tent?" "Well, it was pahtly a tent, and pahtly bank." "I should have thought you would have died." The girl laughed. "Oh, no, we all kept fast-rate.
"She's the best gul in the wo'ld, and she won't be one of the poorest; and I shall feel that I'm doin' just what Mr. Landa would have wanted I should. He picked her out himself, moa than three yea's ago, when we was drivin' past her house at Middlemount, and it was to humor him afta he was gone, moa than anything else, that I took her. Well, she wa'n't so very easy to git, either, I can tell you."
Not that he was eva one to push, and I don't know as he so much as spoke of it, afta we left the hotel two yea's ago; but I presume it wa'n't out of his mind a single minute.
"There was something," she answered, "with him." "And I mustn't know what," the young man said patiently. "Yes yes!" she returned eagerly. "Oh, yes! I want you to know I want to tell you. I was only sixteen yea's old, and he said that he oughtn't to have spoken; we were both too young. But last winta he spoke again.
She's worth two thousand. I've been in the business twenty yea's, and I neve' seen her equal. Give me a bid, Mr. Mr. you have the advantage of me, suh." "Eight hundred and thirty-five!" said Stephen. "Now, Mr. Jerkins, now, suh! we've got twenty me' to sell." "Eight fifty!" said Mr. Jerkins. "Eight sixty!" said Stephen, and they cheered him. Mr. Jenkins took his cigar out of his teeth, and stared.
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