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"'Pears as ef 'twas a drefful t'ing fur de poor chile ter be suff'rin' so," she would sigh to herself as she watched his worn and heavy face on her passages through the room; "but Hagar's t'ankful 'nough to see it, 'cause de poor chile'll find de Lord bimeby. Bress de Lord! Mas'r Dick'll find him some time!" A long and weary week passed away.
They were still thus agreeably engaged when the distant sound of rumbling wheels and clattering hoofs became audible, rapidly drawing nearer, and accompanied by the persuasive shouts and ejaculations of a negro driver. "Dat am de boy Moses wid de cart, I 'spects," remarked the negro whose name I had not yet learned. "What a drefful row de young rascal makes!
The seasons had changed very much since your father went to sea. The winters used to be terrible in those days. When she went over to Springfield, in June, she saw the snow still on Watson's Ridge. There were whole days when you couldn't git over to William Henry's, their next neighbor, a quarter of a mile away. It was that drefful winter that the Spanish sailor was found.
So come Sunday, between meetin's there warn't noth-in' else talked about; and Huldy saw folks a noddin' and a winkin', and a lookin' arter her, and she begun to feel drefful sort o' disagreeable. Finally Mis' Sawin she says to her, 'My dear, didn't you, never think folk would talk about you and the minister? "'No: why should they? says Huldy, quite innocent.
"It's a drefful stroke has come upon 'em." Candace appeared at the door. There was a majesty of sorrow in her bearing, as she received them.
Just bring it along, and let us fix it up, so as to make all safe. It would be a most drefful misfortune if Massa Courtenay was to sing out, and force me to split him heart wid dis knife ob mine; so we will just make it onpossible for him to do any such foolis' t'ing."
Things was drefful all round it, but ’twasn’t Miss Julia’s fault, for if she could have her way ’twould be fixed up, sartin. She was a born’d lady, anybody could see; so different from Miss Fanny, who cared nothing how things looked if she could go into the kitchen and turn hoe cakes for Aunt Judy, or tend the baby!" By this time Luce had arranged the room all it wanted arranging, and as Mr.
Just ask them, Jantje, whether the boy who was mauled is still living, or whether the lions killed him?" The question was put, and Jantje duly interpreted the reply. "Yes, sar, de boy he still alive, but most drefful sick, dhese people say." "Good!" exclaimed Dick, dismounting from his horse. "Then say to them that I am a great doctor, and that I intend to save the poor fellow's life if I can.
"So do I, Ebony," said the youth, pausing for a moment to listen; "it must be some sort of bird, for there can be no wild animals left by the natives in so small an island." As he spoke something like a low moan was heard. The negro's mouth opened, and the whites of his great eyes seemed to dilate. "If it am a bird, massa, hims got a mos' awful voice. Mus' have cotched a drefful cold!"
But, O Lord, how can I? If I knew anything where you was goin', or how they'd treat you! Missis says she'll try and buy you back again in a year or two. But, Lor', nobody never comes back that goes down there. 'There'll be the same God there, Chloe, that there is here. 'Well, said Aunt Chloe, 's'pose dere will. But the Lord lets drefful things happen sometimes.
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