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Updated: June 4, 2025
She panted and fought and choked, striving for speech. "Keep your hair on!" advised W. Keyse in a hoarse whisper. She turned on him like a tigress, her eyes flaming under her straightened fringe. "Keep yours! I've come to speak, and speak I mean to for the sake of the best man Gawd's made for a 'undred years. Bar one, you says, but bar none, says I, an' charnce it!
As for Perkins, he knew next to nothing of what was taking place, nor did he dream that he was daily addressing harsh words to conspirators against his peace. The time had come when Chunk was ready to act. On the night in question a hot wind arose which blew from the little burial-place on the hill toward the house. "Hi! now's de charnce ter fix dat ar bizness!" and he made his preparations.
"I shall walk past the Convent to-morrer in kit and 'cetras, on the charnce of 'Er seein' me. Two sharp. And, look 'ere, Miss, you've done me a good turn. And no larks! if ever I can do you another trust me. Stryte I mean it! You ask chaps 'oo know me if Billy Keyse ever went back on a pal?" She swayed her hips, and disclaimed all obligation. But, garn! he was gittin' at 'er, she knew!
In between the moor an' the sea there was the beach it looked like a blessed boundary road between two countries, an' it led away to where you couldn't see nothing more except a little white town, sort of built 'igh upon a mist, more like a star.... Oh Gawd!... "Anyway, Cuffbut, thet was me charnce, an' thet's 'ow I come to know 'ow my debt was goin' to be paid. Sherrie understood all thet.
"Dar now, young mistis, ef I know I free I bress de Lawd fer de charnce ter gib my wuk ter you. Dere's a po'ful dif'unce 'twix' bein' took en kep en des gibin' yosef out ob yo' own heart. Slav'y couldn't keep me fum gibin' mysef ter de Lawd en I been He free man many a long yeah, en I be yo' free man, too, fer lub."
"Leggo, I tell you! Where's your manners, 'orlin' me abart! If that's the way you be'ayve with your Dutch ones ...!" He spat and asseverated: "Neen! I no other girls but you heb got." It was the Slabberts with Emigration Jane. "Ho! So you can talk English a bit give you a charnce?" "Ja, a little now and then when it is useful.
Some people, I thought, runs away from the debt, an' some pays it in bad money, but, I ses to meself, if ever my charnce come, I'll pay it the very best I can. Lawd, 'ow I 'ated everybody in those days. It seemed like people was all rotten, an' as if all the churches an' all the cherities was the rottenest of all the lot. Well, then, dearie, Elbert blew in.
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