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Updated: May 19, 2025
The old man stared, and turned his eyes slowly about the room. Then he shook his head. "Can't say as I do. Looks pretty much as it did when me and my wife breshed it up in October. Ye see it's kinder clean fer an old house not much dust from the road here. That linen and that bed's bin here sence I c'n remember. Them burnt logs mus' be left over from old Jedge Gordon's time. He died in here.
"So I breshed up that old black to split-silk fineness, an' turned him over to Dr. Sykes, a friend of mine living in the next village. An' I said to the Doctor, 'Now remember he is yo' hoss until Jud Carpenter comes an' offers you two hundred dollars for him. "'Will he be fool enough to do it? he asked, as he looked the old counterfeit over. "'Wait an' see, I said.
"They were all waiting, he said, expecting Absalom to tear him to pieces on the spot; but as Halloway advanced, Absalom faltered and stopped. He could not stand his calm eye. "'It was jest like a dog givin' way before a man who ain't afraid of him, my man said. 'He breshed Absalom aside as if he had been a fly, and began to talk to us, and I never heard such a speech.
And yet that very morning he had turned his pockets inside out for the remains of the last dollar of the money she had given him when he left home. When it had all been raked together, and its pitiable insufficiency had become apparent, this dialogue took place: "Chad, did you find any money on the flo' when you breshed my clothes?" "No, Colonel."
Lovin' hands smoothed the wrinkled forehead 'nd breshed back the long, scant, white hair, but the eyes of the dyin' man wuz sot upon that piece uv road down which the cyclopeedy man allus come. All to oncet a bright 'nd joyful look come into them eyes, 'nd ol' Leander riz up in bed 'nd sez, "It's come!" "What is it, Father?" asked his daughter Sarey, sobbin' like.
My son and I will go to war. Much will be left in your trust. As I and mine have tried to deal by you, so do you deal by us " Shirley raised his voice. "Don' leave nothin' in trus' ter me, marster! Kase I's gwine wid you! Sho! Don' I know dat when gent'men fight dey gwine want dey bes' shu't, an dey hat breshed jes' right! I'se gwine wid you!"
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