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"He's here, jest the same. I'm a-lookin' fer him. Whatever name he come under, or however he looks, I'll know him. I couldn't make no mistake about Mavin." "Mattie, I hope 'tain't so.... I hope you're mistook." "I I don't know whether I hope so or not. I Oh, Mr. Baines, I'd rather be with him, a-comfortin' him and standin' by him, no matter what he done " Scattergood patted her arm.
This he did, and reported everything quiet Nimbus and Berry not heard from; Eliab supposed to have been killed; the colored people greatly alarmed; and "Miss Mollie a-comfortin' an encouragin' on 'em night an' day." Together with this anxiety came the trust confided to Hesden by Jordan Jackson, and the new, and at first somewhat arduous, duties imposed thereby.
He had his share o' misery, po' man, him dyin' o' lung-fever an' all.... "Six head o' young ones we'd had, me an' him. An' they'd all dropped off. Come spring, an' one'd be gone. I kep' a-comfortin' that man best I could they was better off, angels not bein' pindlin' an' hungry an' barefoot, an' thanks be, they ain't no mills in heaven. But their pa he couldn't see it thataway nohow.
"They've a-had a bit of a miff, I d' 'low; well, if the young man have a-got the feelin's of a man he'd be like to object to this 'ere notion of hers Nay, now, he do seem to be a-comfortin' of her. There! Well!" They had left the village behind, and Betty's solitary figure was probably unnoticed by the lovers.
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