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"Well, then, I'll tell you, Horner," said I. "It was by minding his own business, my dear fellow." "Bai-ey Je-ove!" he ejaculated, adding, after a pause, "Weally, Lorton, you dawn't mean it?" "I suppose," I continued, "that you are also just as ignorant again how Mr Peabody made his second and greater fortune, eh?" "Yaas," he drawled out.
The swamper dashed the moisture from his eyes and summoned a look of stubborn resolve. "Mo' better you call me St. Pierre because I'm a fisherman what cuss when I git mad. Look! You dawn't want me git Claude back in Gran' Point'. You want me to give, give. Well, all right! I goin' quit Gran' Point' and give myself, me, to Claude.
But there, putting his foot upon it to bar the way, he said: "Josephine, the devil never bid so high for me before in his life as he's bidding for me now. And there's only one thing in the way; he's bid too late." Her eyes flashed with injured resentment. "Ah, you! you dawn't know not'n' " But he interrupted: "Stop, I don't mean more than just what I say.
"'Tis so lawnly betimes!" he pleaded. And Bess set his longing heart at rest. "So soon as vather can spare I, Ben," she said; and she laid her knitting on the rock beside them, and drew his sea-tanned face close down beside her own. "Ee dawn't seek fer I more'n I seek fer ee, deary!" and kissed him. Thus they plighted their troth. Then came the winter and the hard work.
"Awh, well, I dawn't knaw nuffin 'bout that," said old Zebedee, huffily. "How so be if 'tis so, when he's got clane off 'twill be all right agen." "All right?" thundered Adam "how all right? Right that he should get off and we be left here? that he shouldn't swing, but we must stay to suffer?"
Pierre, may bee you go Mervilionville; dat make me glad, he say: 'dat way, he say, 'what I rob Peter I pay John. Where we go if dawn't go Mervilionville? St. Martinville, Opelousas, New Iberia? Too many Creole yondah for me. Can't go to city; city too big to live in. Why you dawn't like Mervilionville? You write me letter, when you was yondah, you like him fus' class!"
But when she ventured to lift the glass to the horizon, she swept it from east to west in vain. No sail. "Dawn't I tell you no use look? Peter dawn't comin' in day-time, nohow." But on the fifth morning Mary had hardly made her appearance on the veranda, and had not ventured near the spy-glass yet, when the old man said: "She rain back in swamp las' night; can smell."
Sidonie, Crébiche, Claude, rest in yo' seats." "Mo' betteh you tu'n 'em loose, I t'ink," said Catou amiably; "ain't it?" "I rather they stay," replied Bonaventure. All sat down. There was a sustained silence, and then Catou said with quiet abruptness: "We dawn't want no mo' school!" "From what cause?" "'Tain't no use." "Sir sirs, no use? 'Tis every use! The schoolhouse?
"Yo' used t' saay yo' were." "How silly of me. And I used to be afraid of Maggie." "I've been afraaid of Maaggie afore now. She's got a roough side t' 'er toongue and she can use it. But she'll nat use it on yo'. Yo've naw call to be afraaid ef annybody. There isn't woon would hoort a lil thing like yo'." "They say things about me. I know they do." "And yo' dawn't keer what they saay, do yo'?"
"Naw, I dunno nut'n' 'bout dat. I look out for me and my boy, me. And beside," he abruptly threw away the staff he had trimmed, shut his knife with a snap, and thrust it into his pocket, "I dawn't see ed'cation make no diff'ence. You say ed'cation priest say religion me, I dawn't see neider one make no diff'ence. I see every man look out for hisself and his li'l' crowd.
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