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Updated: June 13, 2025
"By Jove, that was dooced awkward of me yes, I beg your pardon, I'm sure. Should have looked where I was going what? said Romeo. "Not at all," answered Nickie politely. "My fault in blocking the path. My fault, entirely." "By Jo-o-ve!" gasped Romeo; "that's a stunnin' make-up, old chap what? Nevah saw a bettah, by gad." "Make-up?" said Nicholas. Mr. Crips had for gotten his false nose.
"But I thought, Colonel, sah, dat de mo' of a puzzle it were, de bettah yo' laiked it!" ventured Shag. Colonel Ashley tried to repress a smile. "Get to bed, you black rascal!" he said with an affectionate pat on Shag's back. "Get to bed! What are you staying up so late for, anyhow?" "To gib yo' a message, Colonel, sah," answered Shag.
"You can profit by their example," laughed Lloyd. "They found that it hurt. It would have been bettah if they had paid no attention to her suggestion." "Moral," added Rob, "don't do it. Betty, don't you dare put any more dangerous notions in my head." Phil's turn came next. "My dream is soon told," he said.
Mom Beck carried the ironing-board out of the hot kitchen, set the irons off the stove, and then tiptoed out to the side porch of the little cottage. "Is yo' head feelin' any bettah, honey?" she said to the pretty, girlish-looking woman lying in the hammock. "I promised to step up to the hotel this evenin' to see one of the chambah-maids.
Ain't you boys got ary bettah sense than to clinch like wildcats?" he demanded, jerking one of the horses away by the bridle. "No, you don't, Phil. I'll take keer of this gun for the present." It was noticeable that Beauchamp Lee's speech grew more after the manner of the plantations when he became excited.
Ah wuz scared sho, an' ah hid in de bushes side o' de road til dey went by, don' member dat mah cows was much scared though." Mammy say 'bettah hide when you sees sojers a-marchin by, so dat time a whole line o dem cum along and I hide." "Down dere mammy done her cookin' outa doors, wid a big oven.
"Soon as de young missus be gone, I go an' kick ovah her playhouse an' upset her toys. When she come back, she be hoppin' mad, an staht beatin' me. "'Jessie, her ma'd say, 'you'll kill Buddy, beatin' him dat way. "'I don't care, she say, 'I'll beat him to death, an' git me a bettah one. "I'd roll on de flo' an' holler loud, an' preten' she hurt me pow'ful bad.
Cleave, coming into the glow, found only the old negro Jim, squat beside it like a gnome, his eyes upon the jewelled hollows, his lips working. Jim rose. "De gineral, sah? De gineral done sont de staff away ter res'. Fo' de Lawd, de gineral bettah follah dat 'zample! Yaas, sah, ober dar in de big woods." Cleave descended the embankment and entered a heavy wood. A voice spoke Jackson's very curtly.
"How does that happen?" "Mammy's gwine to git married agin, to Mistah Robinson, and she says nobody has a bettah right than me to be maid of honah to her own ma's weddin'. So that's how come she toted us all along to you-all's weddin', so that Sweety and Ca'line and the boys could learn how to act at her and Mistah Robinson's." "When is it to be?" inquired Lloyd. "To-morrow night.
He am some bettah, now, sah, but he kain't be move' from de voodoo's house 'cept by a frien'." "I'll get a chance to see one of these old voodoo frauds, anyway," Jack told himself. "This new experience will be worth the time it keeps me out of my bed. What a pity Hal missed a queer old treat like this!"
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