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Your heavenly Father never sleeps. He watches over you always." "Now, truly, does he?" said the child, pressing her flushed cheek against the pillow. "Does he see me in my chubby bed, when the moon's all dark? "O, my suz!" cried she, suddenly, raising her head; "God can take care o' me most always, you know, but I'm drefful afraid something will catch me while he's 'tending to another man!" Mrs.
I wouldn't have him for nothin' in my world! I'm glad God sended a girl, and that's what made me laugh." "It seems so queer to think of it Prudy, I don't know what to do with myself, I declare." "Well, I know what I'm goin' to do. I'll give her my red pocket-dress. She's come clear down from God's house, and this is a drefful cold world."
I wish't he'd use one kind o' figgurin' a leetle more; he'd pay me for that wood-sawin'. I didn't mean nothin' about hosses. I sot out fur to say, Why don't ye marry Miss Lucindy?" "I?" gasped Monsieur, "I, the foreign, the poor? I could not to presume so!" "Well, I don't see 's it's sech drefful presumption.
He was terrifically conscious of the warm smoothness of her fingers playing a soft tattoo on the back of his hand, while she said: "But you have been in love? Drefful in love?" "I never have." "Dear child, you've missed so much of the tea and cakes of life, haven't you? And you have an interest in life.
"Bless yuh, honey, I ain't meanin' to do the leastest thing to dat sweet chile. Clothes kin be boughten agin, but I never'd be able to git anudder Brutus. But if he goes out to dat drefful mill-pond agin, I'm feared I'll have to skin him, and dat's a fact." So the two chums strolled on, heading for another part of the town.
Then the mule, finding that he could not get rid of this singular burden by kicking, started suddenly off at full gallop. "Stop him stop him," yelled Sam. "Gracious me, dis am drefful." This was the sight which met the eyes of the Scudamores and their brother officers as they issued from their tents.
The fall, which almost stunned our hero, had the curious effect of reviving Buttercup, for she muttered something to the effect that, "dat was a mos' drefful smash," as they conveyed her and her rescuer from the vicinity of danger.
"Hallo! massa Benjamin! You's dreamin' drefful strong dis mornin'." "Yer up, ol' ebony!" groaned the boy. In a few minutes the whole camp was roused; sleep was quickly banished by anxiety about the missing one; guns and rifles were loaded, and a regular search-expedition was hastily organised. They started off in groups in different directions, leaving the Eskimo women in charge of the camp.
"I live with the Wakefiel's till I was 'leven and then Marse Wakefiel' give me to my young mistress when she married and went to North Carolina to live. And 'twas in North Carolina that I seed Sherman, 'deed I did! I seed Sherman and his sojers, gathering up all the hogs and all the hosses, and all the cows and all the little cullud chillen. Them was drefful days! These is drefful days, too.
A wild burst of sorrow came from the lips of the servants, who had drawn near. "Where is he?" said Mam Liza, speaking like one suddenly bewildered. "He is buried in H . I could not bring him home," said Marie. "My pore baby," said Mam Liza, with broken sobs. "I'se drefful sorry. My heart's most broke into two."
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