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He gave a quick look around to see if the door behind him was so securely shut that he could not be overheard by the Rebels inside the car, his dull, stolid face lighted up as a negro's always does in the excitement of doing something cunning, and he said in a loud whisper: "Dey's a-gwine to take you to Wilmington ef dey kin get you dar!" "Can get us there!" said I in astonishment.
"Well, Chips," said Roger, "I hope you, at least, are pleased with your prospects." The carpenter likewise made no reply. "Hm, Mr. Cledd, they haven't a great deal to say, have they?" "Aha," the negro murmured just behind me, "dey's got fine prospec's, dey has.
Uncle Isam inquired politely, as he seated himself in a low chair on the hearth and dropped his clasped hands between his open knees. Christopher nodded carelessly. "Glad to see you, Isam," Tucker cordially responded. "Times have changed since you used to live over here." "Days so, suh, dot's so. Times dey's done change, but I ain't I'se des de same.
"But he may arrive half-dead with hunger, exhausted, and " She could say no more. "I am sure of my brother the mayor," said the old man. "I will see him at once, and put him in your interests." Matching his own craft against those wily Norman minds, he replied to the questions put to him on the nature of Madame de Dey's illness in a manner that hoodwinked the community.
A couple of negro men were carrying in its counterpart at one door, as Violet and her brother entered at the other. "Ah that's a fine tree, Jack!" she said addressing one of them; "the captain selected it, I suppose?" "Yes, Miss Wi'let, de cap'n done say dis hyar one was for de Woodburn chillen; an' we's to watch an' fotch 'em in soon's dey's clar gone out ob sight."
How you call dat so long, when he only be tudder day?" retorted the pertinacious negro, who began to grow crusty, and to speak in a short, spiteful way, as if displeased by hearing that to which he could not assent. "Masser Corny was little ole, p'r'aps, if he lib, but all de rest ob you nuttin' but children. Tell me one t'ing, Miss Dus, be it true dey's got a town at Satanstoe?"
He likes to use its fur, also, for braiding his locks into those long plaits which delight his soul; but the lively little rodents are pretty safe from all human foes, even one with a Colt's revolver! By William O. Stoddard "Deah me! Dey's jes' one moah row ob taters. I's hoein' de bes' I know." Julius leaned on his hoe for a moment.
If you break one, the Indians 'll hear it." "Mas' Sam dey's Injuns ahead'n us an' a-comin right torge us too. Look dar!" Sam looked, and saw a body of Indians just in front of him coming to reinforce the others. He and his friends were cut off between two bodies of savages. "Lie down and be still," he whispered. "It's all we can do and I'm to blame for it all!"
"An' yo' chilluns done got t' keep outen dat parlah when de varnish-paint is dryin'," said Dinah, shaking her finger at the twins. "Ef yo' done walks on de varnished floors when dey's not dry, yo' all will stick fast an' yo' can't get loose." "That's right," laughed the children's mother. "You will have to keep out of the parlor while the floors are drying."
I look at 'im fur a minute, en den I let right out, 'Ole Marster, whar de gol'? en he stan' still en ketch his breff befo' he say, 'Hit's all gone, Abel, en de car'ige en de hosses dey's gone, too." En w'en I bust out cryin' en ax 'im, 'My hosses gone, Ole Marster? he kinder sob en beckon me fer ter git down f'om my box, en den we put out ter walk all de way home.
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