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Thomson seems to me a gentleman of some choice qualities, though perhaps a trifle bloody-minded. David, is a sore embarrassment. But you are doubtless quite right to adhere to him; indubitably he adhered to you. It comes we may say he was your true companion; nor less paribus curis vestigia figit, for I daresay you would both take an orra thought upon the gallows.
'Can I do anything for you? he said advancing toward the stranger, who, thrusting the paper from sight, caught up the child in her arms, and without word of answer, hurried away in the storm and rapidly-increasing darkness. 'Curis! She must have got off t'other side of the cars. I wonder who she is and where she is goin'. Not fur, I hope, such a night as this.
"I little thought this mornin', I should have Henry's son to tea," said Aunt Deborah, half to herself. "You don't look any like him, Ferdinand." "No, I don't think I do." "It's curis too, for you was his very picter when you was a boy." "I've changed a good deal since then, Aunt Deborah," said her nephew, a little uneasily. "So you have, to be sure.
Thomson seems to me a gentleman of some choice qualities, though perhaps a trifle bloody-minded. David, is a sore embarrassment. But you are doubtless quite right to adhere to him; indubitably, he adhered to you. It comes we may say he was your true companion; nor less paribus curis vestigia figit, for I dare say you would both take an orra thought upon the gallows.
It was universally agreed, among all the household, from Dinah down to the youngest urchin, that Miss Ophelia was decidedly "curis," a term by which a southern servant implies that his or her betters don't exactly suit them.
"How did this child live to get ashore?" asked Frye, keenly interested. "That's the curis part," replied Uncle Terry; "she was put in a box an' tied 'tween two feather beds an' cum ashore dry as a duck." Frye stroked his nose reflectively, stooping over as he did and watching his visitor with hawk-like eyes. "A very well-told tale, Mr. Terry," he said at last. "A very well-told tale indeed!
Mason said nothing, and soon changing the conversation, told Mrs. Perkins of her projected visit. "Wall, if it don't beat all what curis' things turn up!" said the widow. "You are going to Boston, and mercy knows what'll become of me, but laws, I ain't a goin' to worry; I shall be provided for some way." "Why, what is the matter?" asked Mrs.
"Nothing to me, Mars'r," returned the negro; "but sumfin mighty curis happen over dar," and he pointed in the direction where his comrades were busy removing the family dead to a spot selected by Mr. Bernard years before as one more suitable than the present location.
Sally 's been under my care, now, dis some time, and she does most as well as me, considerin; and if Missis would only let me go, I would help fetch up de money. I an't afraid to put my cake, nor pies nother, 'long side no perfectioner's. "Confectioner's, Chloe." "Law sakes, Missis! 'tan't no odds; words is so curis, can't never get 'em right!" "But, Chloe, do you want to leave your children?"
"Well, now, I hopes you're done," said Aunt Chloe, who had been busy in pulling out a rude box of a trundle-bed; "and now, you Mose and you Pete, get into thar; for we's goin' to have the meetin'." "O mother, we don't wanter. We wants to sit up to meetin', meetin's is so curis. We likes 'em."
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