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But some of her property she had lost through poor investments and don't it beat all how wimmen do git cheated, and every single man she deals with a-tellin' her to confide in him freely, for he hain't but one idee, and that is to look out for her interests, to the utter neglect of his own, and a-warnin' her aginst every other man on earth but himself. But, to resoom.
"The High Toby gen'elmen are gettin' monstrous darin'. I'm told as they've been stickin' up bills on the park gates of the Quality a-warnin' their lordships not to travel with less than ten guineas in their pocket an' a gold watch an' chain, on pain o' death. What think 'ee o' that for downright brazenness?"
Couldn't stay abed when he got there. And Granny Sanders said, Law's sakes! nobody'd ever a found him out ef it hadn't been fer her. Didn't she go all over the neighborhood a-warnin' people? Fer her part, she seed straight through that piece of goods. He was fond of the gals, too! Nothing was so great a crime in her eyes as to be fond of the gals.
"Peppers," he snapped, "you clatter like a feed-cutter. What are you tryin' to say? Out with it. Let's hear it." It was a bold effort to throw us off the scent. Peppers saw the lead, and for a moment he was sober. "I was a-warnin' the lost sinner," he said, "like Jonah warned the sinners in Nineveh. I'm exhortin' him about the fall. Adam fell in the Garden of Eden."
"Tom, do you ever see any li'l pink lizards with blue tails an' red feet? I hear that's a sign, too." "Aw right, have it yore own way," said Tom Loudon with every symptom of disgust. "Only don't say I didn't warn you." "Gawd, Tom, y' old wet blanket, yo're always a-warnin' me. I never see such a feller." "Aw right, I said. Aw right.
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