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There would have been schools and well, many things that you have never known." "I hain't hankerin' fer none of them things," she said. Then with a sudden paroxysm of sobs that shook her afresh, she added, "All I wants is ter hev him back ergin!" But Brent was thinking of things that could mean little to her because she lacked the background of contrast and comparison.
"I kep' my pledge ter yer, though." He spoke gruffly, because the sight of her was burning him up too, with another kind of thirst. "I went an' hed myself jailed. I reckon hit won't hardly master me ergin fer a spell." Alexander felt a lump rising in her throat. Since her awakening she had not missed the meaning of that look in his eyes.
"Lord God of Heaven an' y'arth," trembled the words on her bloodless lips, "he hain't goin' so fur away but what Yore power still goes with him ... keep him safe. Good Lord ... an' send him back ter me ergin ... watch over him thar amongst his enemies ... Amen."
Ye've done sought ter make sport of me, an' now I commands ye ter cross ther fence an' begone from hyar." She paused a moment because her breath was coming fast with passion. "I warns ye nuver ter put foot on this farm ergin I aims ter see thet ye don't an' when ye starts away don't tarry ter look back, nuther." Slowly Jerry O'Keefe nodded.
Ef ye ever lets words like them cross yore lips ergin in my hearin' I'll t'ar ther tongue outen yore mouth with these two hands of mine!" For a space they stood there in silence, the old man glaring, the younger slowly coming back from his mania of emotion as from a trance.
"I don't act pi'zen mean when I'm sober, Alexander an' I strives not ter drink, knowin' full well thet hit plum crazes me Hit don't seem like no common thirst Hit comes on me like a plague and hit masters me ther same as spells or fits . God, He knows I'd es lief hev raised my hand ergin my own daddy, ef I hed one, es erginst yore paw I war frenzied."
"Or else ye've got ter enter inter a new compact." "What's thet?" A ring of hope sounded in the question, since in any fresh deal lies the possibility of better fortune. "Ter go on holdin' yore hand twell this feud business blows over an' I sarves notice on ye thet our own private war's opened up ergin."
"Yes I believe you can be hauted, I aint neber seed one tho but I'se heard dem en I jest git creepy en I no's dey is around." "Cos dreams come tru, I dont remember one now but if I'se had one ergin I will try ter remember en tells you." "No I aint neber seed a ghost. I feels dem sometimes en I jis shot my eyes en pray de "Good Lawd" ter send dat ghost away."
My man he jes wen erway en I haint neber seed him ergin en I'se had five chilluns en de white folks hev heped me all dese years. Dese trifling niggers dey wont hepe dey own kind of folks. If youse got de tooth ache I makes a poultice of scrape irish pertatoes en puts hit on de jaw on de side de tooth is aching en dat sho takes de fever out of de tooth.
"Oh, he air away ergin; up in ther mountain." The shadow deepened on Rose's face and Donald caught the sound of a distressed, "Oh." "What's the matter?" he asked without special thought. "It haint ... it isn't anything ... leastwise it isn't anything that I can tell you about, doctor Mac. I ... I just don't like for him to go up there." A feeling closely akin to jealousy stirred Donald's heart.
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