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The Sunday-school mistress had a letter from him only yesterday saying how much better he felt, and that he hoped to be home again with us very soon." Mrs. Twitt pursed her lips and shook her head. "That may be!" she observed "I aint a-sayin' nuthin' again it. I sez to Twitt, there's trouble comin' for the Church, an' so there is.
And the most beautiful horses you ever see, right from the Sultan's stable, wuz a-prancin' round. And one hundred Beoudins with camels and dromedaries added to the picteresqueness of the seen. And then we see Cleopatri's needle, that tall column a-risin' up to the sky, all covered with writin' worse than mine, and that's a-sayin' a good deal. I couldn't read a word on't, nor Josiah couldn't.
"Why, what was the matter?" "The preacher himself." "The preacher?" "Yes sir. 'Twas this way, Doctor, upon my soul I couldn't hear what he was a-sayin' for lookin' at the man himself. With him a-standin' up there so big an' strong an' an' clean like through an' through an' the look on his face! It set me to thinkin' of all that I used to dream fer fer my Denny here.
The girl was roused instantly, but she said nothing, and he continued, in a determined tone: "Easter, thar's a good deal I've wanted to say to ye fer a long time, but I hev kept a-puttin' hit off until I'm afeard maybe hit air too late. But I'm a-goin' to say hit now, and I want ye to listen." He cleared his throat huskily. " Do ye know, Easter, what folks in the mountains is a-sayin'?
The genuine contempt in that sharp burst of anger impressed the aged butler. "I'm not a-sayin' anything," he said; "it's all a-one to me. I never mixes up with no other people's business. But it's very ill-convenient. I don't get my proper breakfast. That poor woman she's half off her head. When the baby's buried I'll have to go and look out for another room before he gets a-comin' out."
I was a-sayin' to my stepdaughter only the other day that hearin' is one thing and listenin' is another. And she says to me, she says, I was talking like a book, she says. Her very expression and far from respectful! So I says to her, not to be put upon, 'Lethear, I says, 'books ain't similar all through but to seleck from, and I go accordin'...." Mrs.
Wall, sir, he come yowlin' hum, and when he see me he did look saour, no use talkin', jest ez ef he wuz a-sayin', 'Yer think you're paowerful cunnin' with yer b'ar-traps, don't ye? Jest see what it's done to my tail. It's kinder sp'ilt me for a dog. All my fault, warn't it, George?" patting his head.
Well, of course, you may say as it isn't everybody 'ud a' took her in for sevenpence, but then, as I was a-sayin', we did want somebody to help me an' 'Lizabeth, an' I don't take much to myself for what I did. 'You acted well and kindly, Mrs. Gandle, said Mrs. Ormonde. So the long story went on.
So little Davie went up to the old lady, and standing on tiptoe, screamed into her ear all the particulars he could think of, concerning the accident that had just happened. "Hey?" said grandma, in a perfect bewilderment; "what's he a-sayin', Polly I can't make it out." "You'll have to go all over it again, David," said Polly, despairingly; "she didn't hear one word, I don't believe."
Then Rich an' Harve jes draws straws fer a feller. Stranger, they drawed fer Abe. Hit's purty hard to believe that Abe air gone, 'cept that Rich Harp an' Harve Hall don't never draw no straws fer nothin'; but 'f by the grace o' Goddle-mighty Abe air gone, why, as I was a-sayin', the rest of us every durned one of us air a-goin' to be saved, shore.
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