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"Then here, Ben, take my card to the lady and ask if I can be of service to them. Say that I am a countryman of theirs and shall be most happy to do anything in my power." Ben came back the next moment with a face full of grave concern. "Marse Ed'ard," he said, "it's Mistah Love and Miss Zoe." "Is it possible!" cried Edward, starting up. "And is he really so very ill?"
'I like this better'n that old dark place, green dress or no green dress, she thought, 'and I'll ne'er go back there. It inna true what he said, "Have her he will for certain sure," for I'm going to live along of Ed'ard, and the old sleepy lady'll learn me to make batter for ever and ever. Batter's a well-beaten mixture of eggs and summat. She fell asleep.
We learned Cap'n Ed'ard Teach his manners, eh, Jack?" This was too much for the audience which stood agape. A dozen voices at once implored enlightenment. With a lordly air for a youth whose costume was mostly one leg of his breeches, Master Cockrell reproved them to wit: "Captain Stede Bonnet was more courteous to our distress when we sailed with him. He gave us a thumping big breakfast."
"That thar boy treats me ez ef I war a plumb idjit," Laurelia said one day, moved to her infrequent anger. "Tells me, 'Yes, ma'am, cap'n, an' 'Naw, ma'am, cap'n, jes ter quiet me like folks useter do ter old Ed'ard Green, ez war in his dotage an' then goes along an' does the very thing I tell him not ter do."
I'll stay along of Ed'ard, and no harm'll come to me. But a peremptory voice said that she must go, and once more her soul became the passive battleground of strange emotions of which she had never even dreamed. While they fought there like creatures in the dark, Hazel, sitting in the aromatic shadow of the currants, fell fast asleep; and as Mrs.
He went across and took her chin in his hand, laying the other on her shoulder. Her eyelids trembled. 'What'n you after, mauling me? she said. Then a passion of tears shook her. 'Oh, I want Ed'ard and the old lady! I want to go back to the Mountain, I do! Ed'ard'll be looking me up and down the country. 'Good Lord, so he will! said Reddin, 'and rousing the whole place.
Her fate had been settled by a passing whim of his, but so had been her coming into the world. When she went in, Edward was sitting up for her, anxious, but trying to reason himself into calm, as Hazel was given to roaming. 'Where have you been? he asked rather sternly, for he had suffered many things from anxiety and from his mother. 'Only up to'erts the pool, Ed'ard. 'Don't go there again.
When there's anything you want, my Heart's Delight, as this here humble house or town can offer, pass the word to Ed'ard Cuttle, as'll stand off and on outside that door, and that there man will wibrate with joy. The Captain concluded by kissing the hand that Florence stretched out to him, with the chivalry of any old knight-errant, and walking on tiptoe out of the room.
None wants me. I wunna miserable at the Calla. Let me go! She stared at Mrs. Marston with terrified eyes. 'She's as awful as death, she said, 'the old lady. As awful as Mr. Reddin when he's loving. I'm feared, Ed'ard! I'd liefer go. But Edward's arm was round her. His hand was on her trembling one.
I should have had her wait a year or two at least." There was a step in the hall without, a rap on the door. "Come in," Edward said, and Ben appeared. "Marse Ed'ard, dey tells me dars a 'Merican gentleman bery sick in de room cross de hall hyar; gwine ter die, I reckon." "Indeed!" Edward said with concern. "I should be glad to be of assistance to him. Is he quite alone, Ben?
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