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"You knocked him over!" cried Joel, boiling with wrath, and, deserting the big post, he squared off toward the Strawberry Hill boy, and doubled up his little brown fists. "Then you've got to fight me." "All right," said Jim, glad he was so much bigger. "I know a place down in th' cow-pasture where I can lick you's easy's not."
I mean, how han'some you has growed! You allers was han'some, but now you's han'somer'n ever! 'Deed, honey, you's mons'ous han'some!" This hearty welcome and warm admiration, though only from the negro servant, helped to relieve the embarrassment of the visitor, who felt the chill of Cora's cold reception. "Thank you, Aunt Martha," she said, and followed the woman up stairs.
An' nobody ain' gwine to die, honey. Don't you go to slayin' all you's got befo' you's called on to do it. The good Lawd is goin' to pahvide fo' us same as Abraham." The last Sabbath's sermon was still fresh in her mind. "If we only hold out faithful, there's boun' to be a ram caught by the hawns some place, even if we haven't got eyes to see through the thickets.
Ah's just told yer all dis, Mister White Man, 'cause you's a frien' ob de Beaucaires yer wus, wusn't yer?" "Yes," I said soberly, "I am; and, if I can find any chance to help you, I am going to do it, Elsie. Be careful now; don't talk any more the captain is just coming out of the pilot house."
So me 'n him an' the other fellars we've saved up all our propurty, for we're agoin' ter give Larks a stylish funeril an' here it is, mister. I told the kids ef there was more'n enough you's trow in a few greens, anyhow. Make up de order right away, mister, and give us our money's worf now, sure for Larks."
Guess you think you's a kid agin!" When Job took the pail away from him and bore it safely in on his head, Tony chuckled and said, "Bress de Lawd, Marse Job! You's mighty good to me." Job waited for no more of Tony's praises, but hurried off, with Shot barking at his heels.
"Did you he'p him fix up de bill?" Tom cursed himself for making that stupid blunder, and tried to rectify it by saying he remembered now that it WAS at noon Monday that the man gave him the bill. Roxana said: "You's lyin' ag'in, sho." Then she straightened up and raised her finger: "Now den! I's gwine to ask you a question, en I wants to know how you's gwine to git aroun' it.
Old salts are always ready to pity landsmen, and to overwhelm them with 'Bless you's! when they venture to talk of a 'storm'; but the harsh, steady roar of the wind on this day made it plainly and beyond doubt a storm. Long lines of heavy dangerous rollers broke on Deal beach, and only the first-class luggers could launch or live in the Downs, so great was the sea.
"Then it must be that you're afraid of hurting his feelings, Moses, for I know of no other kind of fear." "Pr'aps da's it!" said the negro with a bright look, "now I wouldn't wonder if you's right, Massa Nadgel. It neber come into my head in dat light before. I used to be t'ink, t'inkin' ob nights when I's tired ob countin' my fingers an' toes. But I couldn't make nuffin' ob it. Now I knows!
Their friendship, alas! was of short duration. "You's goodish sorro man," said Ali Bobo to Lancey one evening, as they sat over the camp-fire smoking their pipes in concert. Lancey made no reply, but nodded his head as if in approval of the sentiment.
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