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He was brought down to a lower level by hearing the door open, and the voice of Offitt asking if Mr. Sleeny was in. "No one of that name here," said Budsey. "I was told at Matchin's he was here." "Oh! the yonng man from Matchin's. He is in the library," and Offitt came in, looking more disreputable than usual, as he had greased his hair inordinately for the occasion.
"Goin' to de dev'," said the sweetly-smiling yonng man. The schooner-captain, leaning against the shrouds, and even Baptiste, laughed outright. "O Jools, you mustn't!" "Well, den, w'at I shall do wid it?" "Any thing!" answered the parson; "better donate it away to some poor man" "Ah! Misty Posson Jone', dat is w'at I want. You los' five hondred dollar' 'twas me fault." "No, it wa'n't, Jools."
The yonng are intensely black, like grasshoppers cut out of jet or ebony, and gregarious in habit, living in bands of forty or fifty to three or four hundred; and so little shy, that they may sometimes be taken up by handfuls before they begin to scatter in alarm.
"'Oh, Jenny Jones was a lovely gal, And her mother worked a mangle; She fell in love with a fine yonng lad, Who played on the triangle." Brooke hummed this, and then stopped. "I never heard it before," said Talbot. "Sing the rest. Now you are yourself again. Whatever you feel, Brooke, don't speak of it, but laugh, and jest, and sing old scraps of songs." "I won't," said Brooke.
Then juist let us caa' oor cracks, an' say oor says in peace." Thus admonished, Winsome was silent. But for the first time she looked at Ralph with a smile that had half an understanding in it, which made that yonng man's heart leap. He answered quite at random for the next few moments. "About my father yes, he always takes up the Bibles when John Bairdieson preaches." "What!" said the old lady.
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