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Sheridan picked up a newspaper from Roscoe's desk, and sat down with his back to his son, affecting to read. Roscoe seemed to be unaware of his father's significant posture. "You know wh' I think?" he went on. "I think Bibbs only one the fam'ly any 'telligence at all. Won' work, an' di'n' get married. Jim worked, an' he got killed. I worked, an' I got married. Look at me!
"Eh bien, old woman," said Mandarin, turning, without rising, and speaking sharply in the negro French, "have you any reason to give why you should not be hung to that limb over your head?" She lifted her eyes slowly to his, and made a feeble gesture of deprecation. "Mo té pas fé cette bras, Mawse Challie I di'n't mek dat ahm; no 'ndeed I di'n', Mawse Challie.
One day, as she trudged homeward, two coloured women met on the pavement in front of her, exchanged greetings, and continued for a little way together. "How you enjoyin' you' money, dese fine days, Miz Mo'ton?" inquired one, with a laugh that attested to the richness of the joke between the two. "Law, honey," answered the other, "dat good luck di'n' las' ve'y long. Dey done shut off my supplies."
Chester and her guide hardly spoke until Scipion asked: "Madame, when you was noticing yo' telegram on the desk of yo' son you di'n' maybe notiz' a letter from New York? We are prettie anxiouz for that to come to yo' son. I do' know if you know about that or no, but M. De l'Isle and madame, and Castanado and his madame, and Dubroca and his madame, and Mme.
"Your wife was brought here to a to a " "Meeting," Cummings supplied hastily. "Huh?" Bowman wheeled and saw us. "Why-ee! Di'n' know so many gen'lemen here." "Yes," the lawyer put a hand on his shoulder. "Conference over the evidence in the Gilbert case. No time like the present for you to say " "Hol' on a minute," Bowman raised a hand with dignity.
But we 'ave the 'ope she's goin' to marry, and then !" "Have you made a will?" "Will! Ah, we di'n' never think of that! Tha'z a marvellouz we di'n' never think of that when we are the two-third' owner' of that lovely proprity there! And we think tha'z always improving in cozt, that place, biccause so antique an' so pittoresque.
You rickleck dat big new t'ree-story buildin' w'at jus' finished in de rue Royale, a lill mo' farther up town from his old shop? Well, we open dare a big sto'! An' listen! You think Honoré di'n' bitrayed' 'is family? Madame Nancanou an' heh daughtah livin' upstair an' rissy-ving de finess soci'ty in de Province! an' me? downstair' meckin' pill! You call dat justice?"
"Sir! if I di'n' truzt you, ab-so-lutely, you shoul'n' touch that with a finger." "Well, then, I say yes, she's handsome, trusting you not to gild my plain words with your imagination.
She di'n' look like him but they insist' that also come later. Any'ow she's rent' half-an'-half by those grand-mère' of Castanado and Dubroca, at the firzt just to call 'shop'! at back door when a cuztomer come in, and when growing older to make herseff many other way' uzeful. And by consequence she was oft-en playmate with the chil'ren of all that coterie there in Royal Street.
With a gesture of repulsion and pain she exclaimed: "I di'n' mean I di'n' mean Ah!" "What? private revenge? No, of course you didn't! But what else would it be? O Josephine! don't I know you didn't mean it? Didn't I tell you so? But I want you to go farther. I want you to put away forever the feeling.
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