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Miss Melville, somewhat reluctantly, handed her visitor a chair by the door, but did not ask her upon the platform, as the visitor seemed to expect. "There's a drefful draught here on my neck," she muttered, discontentedly; "an'clock I'm terribly afflicted with rheumatiz mostly. Can't see much of the young uns here, nuther."
Leffie was nearly convulsed with laughter, for she had tried the experiment, and found that the distance round her mother’s arm was just the distance round her own slender waist. "Do tell!" said Aunt Dilsey, stopping from her work and wiping the drops of perspiration from her shining forehead. "Do tell! It feels drefful sleek on me, but my old man Claib says it’s too tight."
"Why, you see, we thought you's dead!" Flyaway, who had at first been very much astonished at the fuss made over her, now looked deeply offended. "Who said I's dead? What a drefful lie!" "O, nobody said so, Fly; only we thought p'rhaps you was; and what would we do without you, you know?"
He swore sich drefful oaths ah was afeered de trees by de roadside was gwine to fall on 'em. He mad mah blood run col', an' ah war pow'ful glad he didn't 'spect me." "Well, Mose, you are safe for the present anyway, for these wicked men will be tried in court soon, and they will be sent to jail for quite a while. Now put my horse in a stall, for I am going to make a call at the big house."
"They bothered me dreadfully, saying: 'Come, Pansy, 'Don't go there, Pansy, till I went right off for sure 'thout telling one body, and then I got losted mos' right away, and I wished I could hear somebody say 'Come, Pansy, but nobody did, so I jes' began to commence to holler, 'th all my might, and the lady camed right off; I think 'twas drefful good for her to."
He was a drefful fellow to drink, Cack was! For all that, there was some good in him, for he was pleasant-spoken and 'bliging; and he made the cap'n welcome. "'Ye see, Cack, said Cap'n Eb, 'I 'm off my road, and got snowed up down by your bars, says he. "'Want ter know! says Cack. 'Calculate you'll jest have to camp down here till mornin', says he.
"Honey, darlin', ye a'n't right, dar's a drefful mistake somewhar," she said. "Why, de Lord a'n't like what ye tink, He loves ye, honey! Why, jes' feel how I loves ye, poor ole black Candace, an' I a'n't better'n Him as made me! Who was it wore de crown o' thorns, lamb? who was it sweat great drops o' blood? who was it said, 'Father, forgive dem'? Say, honey! wasn't it de Lord dat made ye?
"No, sah, dat ain't no way foh to go!" the cook exclaimed. He stood there, head thrown forward, chin out-thrust, the cleaver, which he had carried all the time since we left the ship, hanging at his side. "Why not?" asked Roger. "'Cause, sah, whar dey's a road dey's humans and humans heahbouts on dese yeh islands is liable to be drefful free with strangers.
"If I feel de drefful hunger, he tink it am a vice, And he gib me for my dinner a little broken rice, A little broken rice and a bery little fat, And he grumble like de debbil if I eat too much of dat; When I neber hab forgotten, etc.
"Jist oder side of de bluff. Ver' close to de bushes. Queek! queek! vite! mon garcon, you is so drefful slow." The latter part of this sentence was addressed to Hawkswing, who was quietly putting on his wolf-skin. Although too slow for the hasty spirit of Gibault, the Indian was quick enough for all useful purposes.
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