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"Two people wanting to get on," said Shotwell, as Ravenel went to the coach's rear platform. "They in a buggy. Now they out. Here they Law', Miss Fannie, who you reckon it is? Guess! You cayn't, miss!" Barbara, with studied indifference, asked Fair the time of day. "There," said Shotwell, "they've gone into the cah behind us." "Sister March and her son," observed Garnet to Mrs.
"Ducks!" repeated the negro, grinning at the queerly dressed children in their round straw hats. "Name o' de Lawd! What do you all want wif ducks?" Lovey Mary explained. "Wouldn't a kitten do jes as well?" he asked kindly. "I want my ducky," whined Tommy, showing signs of returning storm. "I don' see no way 'cept'n' gwine to de mahket. Efen you tek de cah you kin ride plumb down dere."
He comes roun'. Eve' now an' then. Zeke's got a cah!" A momentary gleam from dark eyes lit like coals into a sudden flare, and Mary Louise was conscious of a pride that was fierce and strong, even if new. She felt suddenly strange, foreign, like an intruder. Their eyes met, and this time it was Mary Louise's that fell. She felt embarrassed at the question that arose in her.
In the mean time everybody in the car would pack closely around the door, so as to give the impression that the car was densely crowded. The Rebel would look convinced, and demand: "Why, how many men have you got in de cah?" Then one of us would order the imaginary host in the invisible recesses to
It seldom rests more than a few moments on one tree, after which it flies straight off, and with great swiftness, to another. It has a loud shrill cry, to be heard a long way, consisting of "Cah, cah," repeated five or six times in a descending scale, and at the last note it generally flies away.
The Rebel Captain, noticing me, said, in the old, hateful, brutal, imperious tone: "Git back in dat cah, dah." An hour before I would have scrambled back as quickly as possible, knowing that an instant's hesitation would be followed by a bullet. Now, I looked him in the face, and said as irritatingly as possible: "O, you go to , you Rebel.
The door was opened by an old negro servant, who hesitated over his answer to the question put by this unknown person looming up before him with his arm in a sling. Mrs. Elmore was in, but she was not well and could not see any visitors this evening. "Is Mrs. Lessing in?" "Yas, Sah, she is. But she done tole me she couldn't see nobody herse'f. She tekkin' cah ob Miss Lucy."
Know any place around here where you can get a drink of the real thing now and then, some place near enough to go joy-riding to, you know? I shall bring my cah of course ! One can get away with a lot more stuff if they have their own cah, you know especially where there's girls. You can't pull off any devilment if you have to depend on hired cahs. You might get caught.
At last he grew weary of being ignored and in the first pause he languidly drawled: "Leslie, I think you and I'll take the cah and go in town to a show this evening. I'm bored to death." Leslie looked at him with flashing eyes and then extinguished him with her cool tone: "Do you? Well, think again!
According to the Maya, their name is significative of these facts, since KAT or KATAH is a verb that means to place impediments on the road, to come forth and obstruct the passage. Carchemish was their great emporium, where merchants from afar congregated; it was consequently a city of merchants. CAH means a city, and Chemul is navigator.
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