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Updated: September 16, 2025
Lor'! when my young mars' brung his bride over from Orleans dat chile didn't have a gownd in her trunk dat warn't made of Injy silk; an' she did look han'some a-trailin' round in 'em. An' you tell me I donno what fine dressin' is! Go 'long, chile! you've lost your manners."
"I donno as I've ever said it to you, but I've al'ays said it to close friends," stated the Cap'n, earnestly, "that there are only three things on earth I'm afraid of, and them are: pneumony, bein' struck by lightnin', and havin' a land-shark git the law on me. There ain't us'ly no help for ye." He sighed and smoked reflectively. Then his face hardened.
"Don't you know a soul that's hungry, Mame Bliss?" She shook her head. "No," she said, "I don't. Nor nobody sick in body." "Nobody sick in body," Calliope repeated absently. "Soul-sick an' soul-hungry you can't feed up," Mis' Holcomb added. "I donno," said Calliope, thoughtfully, "I donno but you can."
"Seems as if," she said, wrinkling her forehead, "I used to make pink tarleton stockings for your trees and fill 'em with the corn. I donno but I've got a little piece of pink tarleton somewheres in my bottom drawer...." ... Next night they had the bracket lamp and the lamp on the shelf and the table hand lamp all burning. The little tree was gay with the white corn and the coloured trifles.
Don't you love anybody, Topsy?" "Donno nothing 'bout love. I loves candy and sich that's all," said Topsy. "But you love your father and mother?" "Never had none, ye know. I telled ye that, Miss Eva." "Oh, I know," said Eva sadly; "but hadn't you any brother, or sister, or aunt, or" "No, none on 'm never had nothing nor nobody." "But, Topsy, if you'd only try to be good, you might"
"Well, look now. What are they?" The man refused to look. "Donno. Donno anything about birds." Payne looked at him closely and was puzzled. The man's obvious appearance of intelligence rendered such a reply unnatural. The stranger returned the scrutiny, appraising the pair with a lazy air of indifference, which did not quite conceal his shrewdness. "What you-all doing here? Fishing?" "Hiding."
But when he was two-thirds o' the way acrost the pasture, he stops short an' grabs at my sleeve. "'Look here, he says, 'you can't go down there. You mustn't do it. We donno what'll be. You stay here, he says; 'you set there under the cottonwood. "You kind o' haf to mind Abel. It's sort o' grained in that man to hev folks disciple after him.
'Here am I fixed and screwed down to this paltry plantation, when my lord Karrolono owns the whole glen, ten long parasangs from cliff to sea. But Donno too is envied. 'Alas, cursed fate! cries his servitor Flavona.
Sleighter," she said, "the Lord sent you to us because He knew we were in need of guiding." "Ho, ho!" laughed Mr. Sleighter. "Like that Samaritan chap in the reading, eh? I guess you had got among thieves all right, more of 'em perhaps than you recognised too." "He sent you to us," repeated Mrs. Gwynne, offering him her hand. "Well, I donno but that He steered me to you.
"Cardo Wynne," he said, "I wass ussed to think you an honest, straightforward man, though you wass a churchman, and are you mean to tell me now that you donno that Valmai Powell have a small child on the 30th June last year?" "As God is my witness, Shoni, this is the first breath I have heard of such a thing; but she was my wife, why then should her uncle have turned her out?"
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