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"Well, I doesn't 'zactly know; de fair sex am so captious 'bout us gemmen; but Vic is up dar, and you can ask her, she knows all 'bout de 'prieties. Smart gal, dat Vic, I tell you; loves Miss Elsie, too, like fifty." "Does she?" said Tom; "here's another gold piece, give it to her, with my best regards, Dolf."
Well, I don't know just 'zactly how many; but I know this much I killed as many o' them as they did o' me!" During a homeward trip of the "Henry Chauncey," from Aspinwall, the steerage passengers were so numerous as to make them uncomfortable.
He was beaten about the head worse than any of us." "'Zactly, sir; but did you examine on him?" "Yes, and retied the bandage about his head." "That's good, sir; but you didn't find out quite what was the matter." "I thought I knew enough." "Yes, sir, but I did examine him when you sent me below to see how he was, and I found out." "What?" cried Mark, eagerly.
Let the cannons boom! Let the rockets siz! Let the pinwheels whiz! And let the popcorn pop!" "Hold on, deacon hold on!" interrupted Uncle Eb. "That's your last year's Fourth of July speech. That don't seem 'zactly 'propriate to this occasion." "Now you back up, Eben," commanded Given. "You let him spout. It sounds purty good to me, whether there's any sense to it or not."
"'Oh, no, says I, 'I mention them because they come up fust. There is, no doubt, qualities of mind and body "'Well, we won't go into that, said his earlship, 'an' I want to ask you a question. I suppose you represent the middle class in your country? "'I don't know 'zactly where society splits with us, says I, 'but I guess I'm somewhere nigh the crack.
"Not 'zactly not daid jes now." Poor Becky, breaking through her own reserve and agony, made a pitiful appeal. "She has gone away? With whom?" Sister Angela began to comprehend and she lowered her voice, bending toward Becky. "She ain't gone with any one she didn't have ter but she'll fotch up with someone fore long. She's gone to larn she got the call, same as all her kin it's the curse!"
She 'uz mighty high-strung, ole Miss wuz, yit I sees folks dese days put on mo' a'rs dan w'at ole Miss ever is. I ain't 'sputin' but w'at she hilt 'er head high, en I year my mammy say dat all the Bushrods in Ferginny done zactly dat a way. "High-strung yer, headstrong yander," continued Mingo, closing one eye, and gazing at the sun with a confidential air.
"More to do with it than you think, Jack," answered the soldier. "In the first place, you're not quite, though partly, correct about the Gulf Stream " "Well, I ain't zactly a scienkrific stoodent, you know. Don't purfess to be." "Just so, Jack. Neither am I, but I have inquired into this matter in a general way, an' here's my notions about it."
On one occasion, that of a grand political mass-meeting in favour of General Harrison on the 4th of July, 1840, nearly 10,000 persons assembled in Rhode Island, for whom a clambake and chowder was prepared. This was probably the greatest feast of the kind that ever took place in New England." "Zactly," said Sorrow, "den dere is anoder way."
Something he heard of burning houses, and ole miss and Snowdon, and Washington; but nothing was real until he caught the name of Alice, and thought Sam said she was there. "Where, Sam where?" he asked, trying to raise himself upon his elbow. "Is Alice here, did you say?" "No, massah; not 'zactly here but on de road.
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