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From being a petted cabin boy, Ted had grown to be something of a spoiled one, and was what the passengers thought rather too "peart" in his ways, while some of the crew insisted that he needed "takin' down a button hole lower," whatever that might mean. "Bless yer soul, Mas'r," he said, in reply to the question. "Thar ain't no conveyance to the clarin'. It's off in de woods a piece, right smart.
Ye've time enuf yet to save yerself. Git out o' the clarin', an' thur'll be no harm done ye!" "I shall not go out of the clearing, until you've acknowledged my claim." "Then you'll niver go out o' it alive I swar by God! niver!" "You are determined, then, to be my murderer?" I again pronounced the word in the most emphatic tone.
He at once acceded to my request, frankly, if not in the most elegant phraseology, "I'll be pleased to show ye the way to Holt's Clarin'. My own road goes jest that way, till within a squ'll's jump o't." "Thank you: I shall not keep you waiting." I re-entered the hotel to pay for my entertainment, and give orders for the saddling of my horse.
There is the strange support of a bereavement in it, the consolation of feeling that for those who have suffered unto death, nothing can harm them more; that even for those who have inflicted their suffering this peace will soon come. "Is Perez Galdos a pessimist?" asks the critic Clarin. "No, certainly; but if he is not, why does he paint us sorrows that seem inconsolable?
When at last the clarin and the blue jay were left nearly alone in the room, I noticed that the clarin began watching with interest the movements of the jay. They had never come in collision, except of the voice above mentioned, because the jay preferred the floor, chairs, and desk, and seldom touched the perches, while the clarin nearly lived upon them.
He hain't got nothin', as I knows on, 'ceptin' his old critter o' a hoss, an' his clarin' o' a couple o' acres or thereabout; besides, he only squats upon that." "He's only a squatter, then?" "That's all, stranger; tho' I reckon he considers the clarin' as much his own as I do my bit o' ground, that's been bought an' paid for." "Indeed?"
Let me tell yer, Mister Gilt Buttons, I don't 'low any man white, black, or Injun to enter my clarin' 'ithout fust knowin' his reezun. Ye hear that, d'ye?" "Your clearing! Are you sure it is yours?" The squatter turned red upon the instant.
In the former movement, I imitated his example. "The road forks here," said he. "The path on the left goes straight down to Holt's Clarin' the other's the way to my bit o' a shanty." "I shall have to thank you for the very kind service you have rendered me, and say `Good-night." "No not yet.
Rage may have been the passion that brought the colour to his cheeks; but I could perceive that my words had produced another emotion in his mind, which added to the hideousness of the cast at that moment given to his features. "Not my clarin'!" he thundered, with the embellishment of another imprecation "not my clarin'! Shew me the man, who says it's not! shew'm to me!
De next morning, afore de broke ob day, massa and de trader comes round to our cabin, and seeing Phillis at de door, putting de young uns to rights, and clarin' up a little, 'fore we goes out to de field, de fierce man cracked his whip, and jumping ober de young uns, caught Phillis by de arm, and whirling her round and round, called out, 'I say, mister, dis ere's de likelist critter I've sot eyes on dis many a day!
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