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'Wad ye promise nae to tell naebody? 'I don't want to know, she answered, confirmed in her suspicion, and at the same time ashamed of the alteration of feeling which the discovery had occasioned. An uncomfortable silence followed, broken by Robert. 'Gin ye binna pleased wi' me, mem, he said, 'I canna bide ye to gang on wi' siccan a job 's that. How Miss St.
Gin it be a puir body, tell her tae keep it and get a bit plaidie wi' the money, and she 'ill maybe think o' her auld doctor at a time. "Nae fear o' that as lang as a'm livin', Weelum; that hundred's still tae the fore, ye ken, an' a'll tak care it's weel spent.
She wuz smart as she could be, and had a feelin' that she wanted to be sunthin' in the World. But then the old folks wuz took down sick and helpless, and one of the children had to stay to home. And Isabelle staid, and sent Krit out into the World. She sold her jewels of Ambition and Happiness, and gin him the avails of them.
Now he knew the moment when his springe would be trodden upon, the number of them who would come stealthily through the tunal to that gin, the nature of Nevil's attack upon the front, what guard had been left in the town, what upon the ships. His information was minute and accurate, and, hawk and serpent, he acted upon it with fierceness and with guile.
But the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney, in 1793, immensely increased the value of slave labor, and forever fastened the institution upon the southern planters, so far as future legislation was concerned.
Nothing could exceed her devotion to the child, but she had contracted a bad habit of always sharing the sailor's grog by day, and requiring a tumbler of hot gin and water before she went to bed. This was a great trouble to me, but I never saw her tipsy till we were staying at the Bishop's palace at Calcutta.
The cotton gin was not long in proving itself the other half the other hand of the spinning machine. From that year the slave interests of the South rose in market value, and its industrial system assumed unexpected importance in the economic world. The increased production of cotton led directly to increased demand for slave labor and slave soil.
And the right place for it, say I the Dale Cup for Dalesmen." The little man took the Cup tenderly. "It shall no leave the Estate or ma hoose, yer Leddyship, gin Wullie and I can help it," he said emphatically. Lady Eleanour retreated into the tent, and the crowd swarmed over the ropes and round the little man, who held the Cup beneath his arm. Long Kirby laid irreverent hands upon it.
The mother, however, seems to have spent the money in gin and to have left the duty of burying the spiritual body to the parish, who make short work of all bodies; and, of course, by the parish she was buried, you may rest assured of that, though the artist seems to think that she was simply translated to heaven like Elijah. 'I must return to England at once, I said.
'Yes, said the man in black; 'you may bring me another glass of gin and water. 'Cold? said the landlord. 'Yes, said the man in black, 'with a lump of sugar in it. 'Gin and water cold, with a lump of sugar in it, said I, and struck the table with my fist. 'Take some? said the landlord, inquiringly. 'No, said I, 'only something came into my head. 'He's mad, said the man in black.
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