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I'll tell you what I knows, I knows enough to bu'st dat will to flinders en more, mind you, more!" Tom was aghast. "More?" he said, "What do you call more? Where's there any room for more?" Roxy laughed a mocking laugh, and said scoffingly, with a toss of her head, and her hands on her hips: "Yes! oh, I reckon! co'se you'd like to know wid yo' po' little ole rag dollah.
"Yass," Manouvrier mused aloud once more, "I think I build my ole woman one fine house." "Ah! I don't want!" "But yass! Foudre tonnerre! how I goin' spend her else? w'iskee? hosses? women? what da dev'l! Naw, I build a fine 'ouse. You see! she want dat house bad enough when she see her. Yass; fifty t'ousan' dollah faw house and twenty-five t'ousan'" he whisked his thumb at me and I said for him,
Got me to dat boa'din' house what he was runner foh. Yass, sah. Ah had one hunnerd dollahs in mah pants pocket, yass, sah. Nex' mohnin' Ah woke up th'ee days lateh 'boa'd ship bound foh London. Ah ain' got no hunnerd dollah in mah pants pocket. Dat yeh Kipping he didn't leave me no pants pocket." The old black pulled open his shirt and revealed a jagged scar on his great shoulder. "Look a' dat!
"'If he does not faltah in the stretch, suh, says ole man Sanford, 'I will presently show you the one minute and fohteen seconds you desiah upon its face. "The ole man's a good judge of pace, Trampfast comes home bang in the fourteen notch. "When Pete gets down at the stalls, ole man Sanford walks up to him. "'Hyah is a dollah foh you, boy, he says, 'n' hands Pete a buck.
Intelligence suddenly returned. Madame made a beautiful, silent O with her mouth and two others with her eyes. "Ah non! By munse? No, madame. Ah-h! impossybl'! By wick, yes; ten dollah de wick! Ah!" She touched her bosom with the wide-spread fingers of one hand and threw them toward her hearers.
An' now, boy, you git on out of my kitchen an' go on 'bout yore business ef you's got any business, w'ich I doubts. I ain't got no mo' time to waste on you den whut I is on dat flighty-haided Eldora Menifee, a-traipsin' round frum one back do' to 'nother with her talk 'bout ladies' auxiliaries an' gittin' yo rights fur a dollah down an' twenty cents a week." Jeff faded away.
Then her breast began to heave, the tears came, and in her forlornness she was moved to try that other dream of hers an appeal to her boy's charity; and so, upon the impulse, and without reflection, she offered her supplication: "Oh, Marse Tom, de po' ole mammy is in sich hard luck dese days; en she's kinder crippled in de arms and can't work, en if you could gimme a dollah on'y jes one little dol "
En she tol' Jeff fer ter go down en see ole Aun' Peggy, de cunjuh 'oman down by de Wim'l'ton Road, en ax her ter gib 'im sump'n ter he'p git Hannibal out'n de big house, so de w'ite folks u'd sen' fer Jeff ag'in. En bein' ez Jeff did n' hab nuffin ter gib Aun' Peggy, Chloe gun 'im a silber dollah en a silk han'kercher fer ter pay her wid, fer Aun' Peggy neber lack ter wuk fer nobody fer nuffin.
Abalene had been offered four dollars for Whitey some ten days earlier; wherefore he at once drove to the shop of the junk-dealer who had made the offer and announced his acquiescence in the sacrifice. "No, suh!" said the junk-dealer, with emphasis. "I awready done got me a good mule fer my deliv'ry-hoss, 'n'at ole Whitey hoss ain' wuff no fo' dollah nohow!
"Ten t'ousand dollah for dis house? Oh, no, dat is no price. He is blame good old house, dat old house." I easy can get fifty t'ousand dollah for dat old house." "Fifty thousand picayunes; yes," said the Colonel. "She's a good house. Can make plenty money," pursued the deaf man. "That's what make you so rich, eh, Charlie?" "Non, I don't make nothing.
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