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Sure I'm not biddin' him to set his heart on it, for I tould the priest I wouldn't; but is that any raison why he'd not save it? I didn't tell the priest that I wouldn't bid him do that." "Father," said Connor, "for the love o' God will you put these thoughts out o' your heart and mind?"
He never had much manners, and would always just as soon go off without biddin' a body good-by as not." "You didn't notice which way he went, did you?" asked Tony. "Yes, I did," said Cousin Maria; "he went out o' the back door, and along the edge of the woods, and he was soon out of sight, fur George has got long legs, as you well know; and the last I saw of him was just out there by that fence.
The moment had come, she felt, when the independence which had been her compensation amid all the hardships and wrongs of her life, was threatened, when she must either preserve it by a desperate effort, or be trampled under foot by this man, whom she both loved and feared, and in that moment, hated. "I'll not hold my jaw!" she cried, with flashing eyes. "Not even at your biddin', Sandy Flash!
The tears were in her eyes, and had been running down her cheeks, but she was calm and dignified as usual. "Here he comes!" she said as he entered. "The will o' the Lord be dene noo an' for ever-mair! I'm at his biddin'. An' sae's Gibbie." It was Mr. Sclater. The witch had sailed her brander well.
Chandler would bid de slaves off, but 'fore dey started biddin' you had ter tek all ob yo Clothes off en roll down de hill so dey could see dat you didn't hab no bones broken, er sores on yer. Ef nobody bid on you, you wuz tuk ter de slave mart en sold. I wuz sold dere. A bunch ob dem wuz sent ter Mississippi en dey had dere ankles fas'end tergedder en dey had ter walk w'iles de tradahs rid.
You've deserved very different treatment from that young ooman, an' didn't expect that she'd return good for evil, I s'pose. That's because you don't know 'er; you don't understand 'er, you miserable lump of selfish stoopidity. 'Ows'ever, as I said before, I ain't a-goin' to waste no more time with you. But let me, before biddin' you adoo, give you a caution. Remember, that I've got my eye on you.
He paid long visits to Craig Ronald, where he had a great admiration and reverence for the young mistress, and a hearty detestation for Meg Kissock, who, as he at all times asserted, "was the warst maister to serve atween the Cairnsmuirs." "Richt weel I'll do yer biddin', Meg Kissock," he answered in his shrill falsetto, "but no for your sake or the sake o' ony belangin' to you.
I've always done your biddin', Colonel Ward, and I done your biddin' when I brought him here. Now I've found him a lively young chap that I'm proud to know and tho I speak for myself alone I speak as a man that likes fair play, and I say it's dirty bus'ness keepin' him like a chicken in a coop, after you've had your bus'ness talk with him."
She wuz a standin' up in the parlor, with a tall man a standin' up in front of her a talkin'. He seemed to be biddin' of her good-bye, for he had holt of her hand, and be wuz a sayin' as we went by 'em, sez he, "I am sorry not to see more of you." "Good land!" thinkses I, "what can the man be a thinkin' on? the mean, miserable creeter!
One would say, 'I bid so much. Another would say, 'I bid so much. That would go on till the biddin' got as high as it would go. Then the little nigger would go to the highest bidder if the bid suited master. "My mother and father didn't know their age. The white folks kept the ages, and that was something they didn't allow the slaves to handle.
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