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"Just another hour and a half," he said to himself; "ebery thing depend upon what happen before dat time." It was quite dusk before he regained the shelter of the cottage. He had gone round by the wagon, and had taken from it a large stable-fork, muttering as he did so. "Golly! dis de berry ting."
"Soon be to de eend, massa, o-o-o-o-oh! Lorgol-a-marcy! what is dis here pon de tree?" "Well!" cried Legrand, highly delighted, "what is it?" "Why, taint nuffin but a skull somebody bin lef him head up de tree, and de crows done gobble ebery bit ob de meat off." "A skull, you say! very well! how is it fastened to the limb? what holds it on?" "Sure nuff, massa; mus look.
"Did your mistress I beg pardon I meant, did my wife tell you where she was going to?" enquired Alfred. "She told me to come to Jackson, after I told her I would be sure to get away from de city," answered the girl; "but de police ketch me up before I could look for her; and since I been belonging to Dr. Humphries I has look for her ebery whar, but I can't find out whar she am gone to."
He sleep for heself, and he no sleep for 'e neighborhood! Dere! A man can't t'ink of ebery t'ing, in a minute. Here a ribbon long enough to hang heself take him, and den remem'er, Phyllis, dat you be 'e wife of a man who hab care on he shoul'er."
But at the conclusion his face fell. "Ise mighty glad I am cleared," he said. "But I'd give a good deal to face de cap'n jest to see wot he would say, eh?" "He said he was sorry he had suspected you," said Dick. "What a big fool dis darkey was to run away!" murmured Aleck meditatively. "I wasn't cut out fo' no sailer man. Ise been sick most ebery day since I left shoah.
Mose times I find de best ting am to put a little laudabun in my mouf, and a little on bit of rag and put him outside. De best ting would be for you to gib me little bottle of him; den when de pain come on I could jes take him, and not be troubling you ebery day. And, Sam, jus you whisper I got hold of a little good stuff. You gib me tin mug; me share what I hab got with you."
I can't bear to be longer here in the house with my husband and the spoiled child." My friend looked disconsolately at me. "What am I to do?" he asked. "She writes ebery week, and I don't answer. And my wife sends on dese letters." "Do?" said I. "Send this one at once to Madame Cohen, and ask her to answer it for you. That London lady will never trouble you again."
And accordingly, at the next catechizing, the Doctor's astonishment was great when Candace pressed up to him, exclaiming "De Lord bress you, Doctor, for opening de prison for dem dat is bound! I b'liebes in you now, Doctor. I's gwine to b'liebe ebery word you say. I'll say de Catechize now, fix it any way you like.
Lawrence Croft was not a man to do himself a physical injury which might be permanent, if such doing could possibly be avoided, and he gave up the idea of trying to go into the house. "I tell you what it is, Letty," said Uncle Isham, when he returned to the kitchen after having carried Lawrence's supper to him, "dat ar Mister Croft in de offis is a gittin wuss an' wuss in he min', ebery day.
Tell me, has he not come home?" "No, mass'r I'se afeerd he nebber, nebber will ebberybody 'feerd he be drownded folks a been to de village up an down de Lebee ebery wha. No Toney. Captain ob de boat blowed clar into de sky, an fifty passengers gone to de bottom. Oder boat save some; some, like young mass'r, swam 'shore: but no Toney no Mass'r Toney!" "Do you know if he could swim?" I asked.
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