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"You gib it 'im a'most too strong, Massa Benjee." "Blackbeard must be the bad spirit," remarked Amalatok to his son that same night as they held converse together according to custom before going to bed. "The bad spirit is never kind or good," replied Chingatok, after a pause. "No," said the old man, "never." "But Blackbeard is always good and kind," returned the giant.
And isn't it ashamed o' yourselves you ought to be, to leave His house in such a condition and doesn't it rain a'most every Sunday, as if He wished to remind you of your duty? aren't you wet to the skin a'most every Sunday?
Widow Precious had plenty of sharp sense to tell her that her children were by no means "pretty dears" to anybody but herself, and to herself only when in a very soft state of mind; at other times they were but three gew-mouthed lasses, and two looby loons with teeth enough for crunching up the dripping-pan. "Your Warship spaketh fair," she said; "a'most too fair, I'm doubting.
Why, Miss Alice, dear, where have you been? and if that ain't my little Ellen! oh dear! what a fix you are in! Well, darling, I'm glad to see you again a'most anyway." She crossed over to kiss Ellen as she said this; but surprise was not more quickly alive than kindness and hospitality.
You know your family is a pretty large one." "Yes, there's a stunnin' lot of 'em a'most too many for me; but I said the babby." "Oh, I suppose you mean Charlie Christian?" "In coorse I means Challie," replied the child, with a smile that displayed a dazzling set of teeth, the sparkle of which was only equalled by that of her eyes.
"But look here," he went on, "here's what I want to know, Barbecue: how long are we a-going to stand off and on like a blessed bumboat? I've had a'most enough o' Cap'n Smollett; he's hazed me long enough, by thunder! I want to go into that cabin, I do. I want their pickles and wines, and that." "Israel," said Silver, "your head ain't much account, nor ever was.
Lor bless you, she'd sit down and sing to you, and gaze at you, until she warbled your soul out of your body a'most. She asked me to go to her evening parties every Toosday; and didn't I take opera-boxes and give her dinners at the restaurateurs, that's all? But I had a run of luck at the tables, and it was not in the dinners and opera-boxes that poor Clavering's money went.
If they are too young, it is too much like kid; if they are too old, it's like sole leather, it's so tough; and if they have been whipt, as all on 'em have a'most, why the back is all cut to pieces, and the hide ruined. It takes several sound nigger skins to make a stole; but when made, it's a beautiful article, that's a fact. "It is used on a plantation for punishment.
An' w'en you come to consider that in them eight years I've bin goin' more than two-thirds o' the time at an average o' forty mile an hour off an' on all night a'most as well as all day, an' run thousands and thousands o' miles, besides carryin' millions of passengers, more or less, it do seem most rediklous to go for to say that coaches was safer than railways the revarse bein' the truth.
And often have I stood and leaned over the gate and watched them, till I felt a'most as fond of them as of my own children; and never would leg have crossed her while she was in my possession had that not happened that may happen to any man, when he least expects it. "My wife had been ill, very ill. My poor Lizzy, I thought I should ha' certainly lost her.
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