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I cert'ny slipped t'roo dat 'cordion Gineral Jackson am er stretchin'! How many on de oder side, sah? 'Bout er half er million." Fremont telegraphed and wrote to Washington. "The condition of affairs here imperatively requires that some position be immediately made strong enough to be maintained. Reinforcements should be sent here without an hour's delay.
"Did she tell you she was going to Florida?" "She cert'ny did. She was real full of it, and she talked a lot about you all up here the baby and you and Mr. George. You know I ain't laid my eyes on Mr. George mo' than three times in my life. Well, I reckon I'd better be gettin' along back, or the children will miss me.
"And do you let them go ashore again when they get ready?" "Cert'ny, sir. They come and go betwixt two days not because they are afraid of us, but because they must look out that the rebels ashore don't hear of it. Some of the boats get news from Newbern every day or so." "We know that," answered Jack.
"Then I see," retorted Sairy, "what Brother Dame meant by good comin' out o' evil! Here's Christianna." A girl in a homespun gown and a blue sunbonnet came up the road and unlatched the little gate. She had upon her arm a small basket such as the mountain folk weave. "Good-mahnin', Mrs. Cole. Good-mahnin', Mr. Cole. It cert'ny is fine weather the mountain's having."
"No, Sadie, you sure hadn't made duty the watch-word of your life," agreed Mrs. Thomas. Mrs. Nitschkan ignored this. "Now doin' good, for I know you don't know what that means, José, is seein' the right path and makin' other folks walk in it whether they're a mind to or not. Well I cert'ny gave the sinners of Zenith a run for their money."
With a little cry of delight Virgie swooped down on the knapsack and explored its interior with eager hands. "I'm much obliged, Mr. Yankee. We cert'ny do need it bad." She tossed the tangled hair back from her eyes and looked thankfully up at this curious person who had so much food that he could really give part of it away. "Please, Mr. Yankee won't you tell me your name?"
She come right down dem steps 'mongst all dem mad folks an' say, calm an' lady-lak, 'Gent'mun, my brother-in-law is here, cert'ny. Where would he go for safety 'cepn to his brother's house? But I give you my word dat he gwine stay right here 'till you put him on de firs' train headin' nawth. Den no mo' blood will be spilled. An' dat's what dey done.
"OH, Albert, you DO know me," cried the girl, rushing toward him with outstretched hand. He took it unhesitatingly, saying with a pleased wonder, "Well, I reckon I'm comin' round. Yer the young lady I give this picture to?" "I'm Helen," she breathed, with an indescribable accent of tenderness and gladness. "Why, cert'ny. The doctor tole me 'bout you." "But you remember me yourself?" she pleaded.
Not but that I was glad to mind them for her to go visitin', for she's a splendid lady and they're real lovely children. She's to home now. The sewin'-machine's been rattlin' since daylight." "I cert'ny am glad to see you at last, lady," said Mrs. Callahan, with rather an offended air, when Peggy and John Edward and Elmore and Susie ushered in the visitors.
"You gave him various amounts which he was to stake for you." "Just so, sir! And at first," said Pickard, with a shake of the head, "at first I'd no great reason to grumble. He cert'ny wor a good hand at spottin' a winner. But as time went on, I' t' greatest difficulty in gettin' a settlement wi' him, d'ye see?
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