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"For God's sake don't! don't say a word about it, or you'll get me into dreadful trouble!" exclaimed Mrs. Peckover, turning pale as she thought of possible consequences, and catching young Thorpe by the arm when he tried to pass her in the passage. The step up stairs crossed the room again. "Well, upon my life," cried Zack, "of all the extraordinary old women
An almost complete separation accordingly ensued for some years, until Zack grew up to boy's estate, and was taken to see Valentine, one day in holiday time, by his grandfather. He and the painter became friends directly. Mr. Blyth liked boys, and boys of all degrees liked him.
"Whew!" Brent gave a long, clear, incredulous whistle, and called over to Jane: "Did you hear this boaster?" But the whistle had a more subtle intention than emphasis, and within doors Uncle Zack, dozing in a kitchen chair, became at once active. This newly inaugurated signal immeasurably pleased the Colonel, who could not himself whistle. "Do either of you know it's Sunday?" she asked.
The master had read aloud to him the first lesson, which describes the earth as one of the planets that revolve round the sun, and which says that it is a globe or sphere, turning on its axis once in twenty-four hours and so causing day and night. Old Zack listened incredulously. "I don't believe a word of that!" he declared flatly.
Zack went immediately to look at Madonna's drawing, the outline of which was now finished. "Beautiful! Splendid! Ah! confound it! yes! the glorious Greeks, and so forth, just as you say, Blyth. A most wonderful drawing! the finest thing of the kind I ever saw in my life!"
None ever bobbed up at our end, and, so far as we ever heard, they were never found floating on other streams. I fancy the water rushes into some vast subterranean sea." Zack came out with the beverage, Brent bowed to the Colonel, drank it and sighed.
"She's gone down considerable the last four-five days. Out of the banks last week an' runnin' all over creation." "Still pretty high," remarked the other. "Came near to sweeping Zack's mare downstream but well, she made it and Zack has turned black again." The settler raised his lantern again at the stable door and looked dubiously at the negro. "You're from Kentucky, Mr.
Blyth beckoned to Madonna, and began talking on her fingers. "No signs of Zack yet are there, love?" The girl looked anxiously towards the window, and shook her head. "If he ventures up here, when he does come, we must not be so kind to him as usual. He has been behaving very badly, and we must see if we can't make him ashamed of himself." Madonna's color rose directly.
Bunting, and proceeded to cook his dinner. 'Wal, it's the first time I see a feller's dander riz for tellin' him he's as good as another, remarked Zack, sauntering in the wake of the others towards the unfinished shanty. 'I reckon it's almost time for me to make tracks to hum; the ole woman will be lookin' out.
Henry Shackleford hired me en brung me to Christian County. Not long fore I was married ter Albert Wooldridge we sho had a big wedding. Zack Major a nigger preacher of de Baptist faith did de ceremony right here in Hopkinsville. "Yes, sho I has ben a mid-wife or granny. All dese high falutin things dey is doin now in child birth is tommy-rot dey oughter hev jes grannies now.
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