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"There's more room in here," she insisted with sweet buoyancy. Hamlet Graves rose. "Here, Cousin Daphne!" His brother Lazarus stood up with him. "Here, John, your maw'll feel better if you're a-sett'n' by her." But she urged the seat, with coy temerity, upon Mr. Ravenel. "How well she looks in mourning," remarked two Blackland County ladies. "Yes, she's pretty yet; what a lovely smile."
I heard an educated gentleman say, 'Like the flag-officer did. His cook or his butler would have said, 'Like the flag-officer done. You hear gentlemen say, 'Where have you been at? And here is the aggravated form heard a ragged street Arab say it to a comrade: 'I was a-ask'n' Tom whah you was a-sett'n' at. The very elect carelessly say 'will' when they mean 'shall'; and many of them say, 'I didn't go to do it, meaning 'I didn't mean to do it. The Northern word 'guess' imported from England, where it used to be common, and now regarded by satirical Englishmen as a Yankee original is but little used among Southerners.
I heard an educated gentleman say, 'Like the flag-officer did. His cook or his butler would have said, 'Like the flag-officer done. You hear gentlemen say, 'Where have you been at? And here is the aggravated form heard a ragged street Arab say it to a comrade: 'I was a-ask'n' Tom whah you was a-sett'n' at. The very elect carelessly say 'will' when they mean 'shall'; and many of them say, 'I didn't go to do it, meaning 'I didn't mean to do it. The Northern word 'guess' imported from England, where it used to be common, and now regarded by satirical Englishmen as a Yankee original is but little used among Southerners.
"Miss Charlotte say ef you want he'p you fine me a-sett'n' on de step o' de stairs hafe-ways down." I inquired if she was leaving us. "She a-gitt'n' ready, suh; Misteh Goshen done gone to de sta-able to git de hosses." The girl suddenly seemed pleased with herself.
He smiled sturdily, and she smiled also, but let compassion speak in her eyes before she reverently withdrew them. He, too, was still. They were approaching a large river. The porter, growing fond of them, came, saying: "Here where we crosses into Yankeedom. Fine view fum de rear platfawm sun jes' a-sett'n'."
I 'uz a-sett'n' here kinder dozin' in de dark, en che-bang! goes a gun, right out dah.
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