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"The niggers say the old general almost had a fit when he saw her. Aunt Alsidia let her into the house; I reckon if Joe had been alive she wouldn't have got inside that door, spite of the night!" "Well?" said Bladen. "When morning come she was gone, but the child done stayed behind; we always reckoned the lady walked back to Fayetteville sometime befo' day and took the stage.
The boy opened his mouth, but his courage failed him, and with his courage went the words he would have spoken. "Who is this?" asked Bladen. "I'll tell, you presently," said Crenshaw. "Come, speak up, sonny, what do you want?" "Please, sir, I want this here old spo'tin' rifle," said: the child. "Please, sir, I want to keep it," he added.
Memories of idle tales of men foully dealt with in these lonely taverns, of murderous landlords, and mysterious guests who were in league with them, flashed through his mind. Murrell had followed them for this and had killed his Uncle Bob, and he would be sent back to Bladen! The law had said that Bladen could have him and that his Uncle Bob must give him up.
It didn't amount to much, as there was only him and the darkies, and the account ran on from year to year." "He lived entirely alone, saw no one, I understand," said Bladen. "Alone with his two or three old slaves yes, sir. He wouldn't even see me; Joe, his old nigger, would fetch orders for this or that.
John," said Yancy, and turned his back on his friend. "I reckon Bladen will have the law on his side, Bob!" "The law be damned I got what's fair on mine, I don't wish fo' better than that," exclaimed Yancy, over his shoulder. He strode from the store and started down the sandy road at a brisk run.
The people about Bladen declare that no negro shall live in the county unless he remains with his master and is as obedient as heretofore. In Clark county, about the first of June, a freedman was shot through the heart; his body lies unburied. Said planter had killed this woman's husband three weeks before. This occurred at Suggsville, Clark county.
Lord Essex was married yesterday, to Harriet Bladen; and Lord Strathmore, last week, to Miss Bowes; both couples went directly from the church to consummation in the country, from an unnecessary fear that they should not be tired of each other if they stayed in town. And now 'dixi'; God bless you!
He was now on the best of terms with Nat Ferris, and it was at the Barony that he lounged away his evenings, gossiping and smoking with the planter on the wide veranda. "The Barony would have suited me," he told Bladen one day. They had just returned from an excursion into the country and were seated in the lawyer's office. "You say your father was a friend of the old general's?" said Bladen.
He was born in 1705, of a family of no marked social distinction, his father being a barrister, and his grandfather a London merchant. His mother's maiden name was Bladen. One of her brothers held an important civil office as Commissioner of Trade and Plantations, and was for many years a member of Parliament.
One was a painful impression of meeting Mr. Bladen on the Boulevard des Capucines in company with a very pronounced young person whose laugh dismayed him, and when at last he escaped from the cafe where Mr. Bladen had hauled him to join them in a bock he felt as if the whole boulevard was looking at him, and judging him by his company.
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