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Updated: May 7, 2025
If you t'ink dat she will like better dat I should be her mother," the word, on her lips, was surprisingly sweet, "den I will do anyt'ing!" All at once she broke into phrases that were foreign to Rose-Marie, phrases spoken lovingly in some almost forgotten tongue.
"She ver' quiet. She mak' no cry. By the fire I see her face. It is the face of a dead woman." A groan was forced between Garth's clenched teeth. "Did they hurt her?" he demanded, waiting for the answer like a condemned man waits for the final stroke. But Rina shook her head. "Nick Grylls, him tak' off his hat, polite," she said. "'Erbe't not say anyt'ing to her." He breathed again.
"P'raps I do, massa; and den, again, p'raps I don't know anyt'ing about any vessels," replied the negro, very indefinitely. Christy was provoked at the manner in which the negro replied to his questions. Ordering his boat's crew to give way with all their might, he directed the cockswain to run for the punt of the negro. The cutter struck it on the broadside, and broke it into two pieces.
She done been bawn in de Colby famb'ly, an' she know Mars' Colby better dan he know he'self. Fiery as he was, she know dat if yo' kin mak' him laff, he'd fo'give a nigger 'most anyt'ing. "So my ol' mammy tol' Sally Alley wot tuh say an' do. Sally wipe her eyes an' mak' herse'f neat erg'in, an' wa'k up ter de big house brave as a lion in de seemin' jes' as de gran' folkses comes out upon de lawn.
He disclosed his teeth and his shoulders heaved restlessly. "You fellers can't guy me," he said. "Drink yer stuff an' git out an' don' make no trouble." Instantly the laughter faded from the faces of the two men and expressions of offended dignity immediately came. "Who deh hell has said anyt'ing teh you," cried they in the same breath. The quiet stranger looked at the door calculatingly.
"Oh, I wants t' go all right 'nuff, Mistah Sharp," was Eradicate's prompt answer. "Yo' all knows I'd do anyt'ing t' 'blige yo' or Mistah Swift. But hits dish yeah mule, Boomerang. I jest done promised him dat we were gwine home t' dinnah, an' he 'spects a manger full ob oats.
It might have been a gull or an albatross. "Impossible," said Zeppa. "Where could he hope to escape to in that direction no island within a thousand miles?" "A desprit man doos anyt'ing, massa." "Well. I shall soon find out, for the wind blows in that direction," said the captain, wheeling about and returning to his ship.
"T'ank yo', massah; you is a real gen'man," and Ben's face relaxed into a broad smile. "You were going out in your boat, I believe." "Yes, massah. But if I kin do anyt'ing fo' yo' " "What of this wreck? Is it the same that one can see from the bluff?" "Yes, massah, de werry same." "It's remarkable that it should survive so long."
The man took off his hat and approached Tom, genuflecting as he might have done in church. "She say you save baby from condor," the man said in his halting English. "She t'ank you me, I t'ank you. Bird see babe in deer skin t'ink um dead animal. Maybe so bird carry baby off, drop um on sharp stone, baby smile no more. You have our lives, senor! We do anyt'ing we can for you."
I'm getting cramp. 'I'll blow a hole in you if you do! 'Just as you please. But I'm not armed. 'Lefty, he said to the other man, 'feel around to see if he's carryin' anyt'ing. Lefty advanced and began to tap me scientifically in the neighbourhood of my pockets. He grunted morosely the while. I suppose, at this close range, the temptation to 'hand me one' was almost more than he could bear.
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