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And with that she walks past 'im, looking like a queen, and down into her cabin; and 'e was left a-standin' there sucking the end of his stick and looking like a fool. 'I think, perhaps, says I afterwards, 'you ought to 'ave let 'im make an honest woman of you. 'I'm as honest as I want to be, says she, 'and the child is all my own now. So no more was said.
Jest like Josiah; lots of times he would be real glad to do things, only his hands are full. And then another group wuz a beautiful female a-standin' up between two great, big, long-horned oxen, a-holdin' them powerful-lookin' beasts with a rope made of posies. Good land! I wouldn't held 'em with iron chains.
Yes, I gin him a pretty lucid idee of what my feelin's wuz on the subject and spozed mebby I had convinced him. I wuz a-standin' with my back to him, a-ironin' a shirt for him, when I finished up my piece of mind. And thought more'n as likely as not he'd break down and be repentent, and hand me out a ten dollar bill.
"When I see even a nigger a-standin' there and a-knowin' so well what wimmen's place wuz, my heart beat with about the proudest emotions I have ever experienced. Why, he said," sez Casper, "that if wimmen wuz allowed to stand up in the Conference, they wouldn't be satisfied. The next thing they would want to do would be to preach. It wuz a masterly argument," sez Casper.
I see the preacher a-standin' there, clost to thet ole maid of Miss Lav'lotte's, and if you say so " "But, Nate, I ain't dressed up! That is, not bridy, you know." He looked down at her such a mite in her black swathings! and smiled. "You ain't nothin' but a child, Lucy, and I'll have to be husband and father, both. But I'll look after you close, dear, and be good to the babbies.
"Quit that," said the Southerner, "or I'll break your neck!" The eye of a man is the prince of deadly weapons. Trampas looked in the Virginian's, and slowly rose. "I didn't mean " he began, and paused, his face poisonously bloated. "Well, I'll call that sufficient. Keep a-standin' still. I ain' going to trouble yu' long. In admittin' yourself to be a liar you have spoke God's truth for onced.
"Yee owe," said the wretched man, stretching himself luxuriously. "I've been a-standin' up and a-sittin' down and a-standin' up since last night, an' " Here he suddenly remembered something. He sat up and looked round fearfully. "When it got dark before the moon came I saw the devil! One! I think there was half a dozen of them! I saw them comin' at me in the air.
A bystander a-standin' by sez, "I guess if you would go into the south pavilion here and look at the display of wine you wouldn't talk about lookin' at water; why," sez he, "to say nothin' of the display of our own country, the exhibit of wine from France, Italy, Spain, and Germany is enough to set a man half crazy to look at."
"A stout gent in a straw 'at," answered the boy, staring round him bewilderedly. "Well, where is he?" asked Amenda. "I dunno," replied the boy, in an awed voice; "'e was a-standin' there, at the other end of the punt, a-smokin' a cigar." Just then a head appeared above the water, and a spent but infuriated swimmer struggled up between the houseboat and the bank.
"Three inches more tew one side an' he'd a-got me, tew. "Wal, me an' Spike didn't stop tew argy none after that; but got back ahind them bushes an' trees as sudden as our legs would take us. But," and Ugger paused and glared at Thure and Bud, "if I knowed I was on my deathbed an' a-goin' tew die in five minits, I'd be willin' tew swear that th' tew murderers was them tew boys a-standin' thar.
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