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I also looked, and saw at the base of my third finger a circle like the mark left by a wedding-ring. "That is strange," I said; "I never wore a ring in all my life!" "Das de sign, suh," muttered the old man; "das de Ormond sign, suh. Yo' pap wore de ghos'-ring, an' his pap wore it too, suh. All de Ormonds done wore de ghos'-ring fore dey wus wedded. Hit am dess dat-a-way. Mars' George "
This subject of nicknames is a curiosity. All rules of euphony, fitness, and common sense, that apply to other things, are utterly at fault here. A baby who cannot talk plainly, dubs himself "Tuty," or "Dess," or "Pet," or "Honey," and forthwith becomes Tuty, Dess, Pet, or Honey, the rest of his mortal life. All the particularly cross and disagreeable girls are Birdies and Sunbeams.
"Ef hit's done fix, nobody kin onfix it. But dess yo' leave dem gin'rals whar dey is nex' time, Mars Will'm. Hit wuz a gin'ral dat done tuk de Dominiker hen las' time de blueco'ts come to San' River." The boy, sitting entranced in reverie, scarcely heard him; and it was only when a far trumpet blew from the camp in the valley that he started in his saddle and raised his rapt eyes to the windows.
Oh! the job I had packin' your bundle of presents.... Now, Lee, make a guess." "I dess you fetched a dun," replied Lee. "A dun! I'll bet you mean a gun," laughed Jean. "Well, you four-year-old Texas gunman! Make another guess." That appeared too momentous and entrancing for the other two youngsters, and, adding their shrill and joyous voices to Lee's, they besieged Jean.
Verdict: as translated by the ferocious interpreter: "Ze Court faind you Geeltee. You are condemned to Dess, and you will be shot on Monday." In the prison of Saint-Gilles as I believe elsewhere in Belgium though there might be a military governor in control who was a German, the general direction remained in the hands of the Belgian staff which was there when the German occupation began.
"Why did you tell her that? You want him caught; so do I; but you know she doesn't want to catch him, and you don't want her to. Neither do I. Nor neither do we want Lieutenant Ferry to catch him." "No, suh, dass so. But same time, while she no notion o' gitt'n' him cotch, she believe she dess djuty-bound to head-off his devilment. 'Tis dess like I heah' Mr.
"I am very busy darning your stockings, Peter." "I don't like to pick up, Muddy." "No, it isn't much fun, but it has to be done." Peter went over to the window and gazed at the landscape. "I dess I'll go play with Ellen," he remarked in honeyed tones. "That would be nice, after you clear away your toys and blocks."
Now they heard the distant baying of house-dogs, now the doleful call of the chuck-will's-widow; and once Mary's blood turned, for an instant, to ice, at the unearthly shriek of the hoot-owl just above her head. At length they found themselves in a dim, narrow road, and the negro stopped. "Dess keep dish yeh road fo' 'bout half mile an' you strak 'pon the broad, main road.
An' all time, Miz Johnson, I give you my word, I stannin' there holdin' nat basket, carryin' on up hill an' down dale how them the same two Berjum cats Mista Sammerses sen' her: an' trouble enough dess ten'in' to that basket, lemme say to you, Miz Johnson, as anybody kin tell you whutever tried to take care o' two cats whut ain't yoosta each other in the same basket.
So did Sam Williams. "Herman," said Penrod, in a weak voice, "you wouldn't HONEST of cut his gizzard out, would you?" "Who? Me? I don' know. He mighty mean ole boy!" Herman shook his head gravely, and then, observing that Verman was again convulsed with unctuous merriment, joined laughter with his brother. "Sho'! I guess I uz dess TALKIN' whens I said 'at!
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