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I reckon, I says, 'that if they'd club together, the folks your husband p'inted out to me to-day could almost satisfy the requirements of the 'Merican Soci'ty fer For'n Missions. Mis' Price laughed, an' looked over at her husband. 'Yes, says Price, 'I told Mr. Harum about some of the people we saw this afternoon, an' I must say he didn't appear to be as much impressed as I thought he would.
"'S a' right, Governor," he goes on, "'s a' right. Been givin' lil' lu-luncheon to for'n rep'sen'tives. Put 'em all out but An-Andorvski, and he's nothing but a fish deuced Russian fish. Eh, Droski?" Believe me, with J. Q. Hubbard turnin' purple in the gills, and all them cheap foreigners lookin' on bug-eyed, it wa'n't any humorous scene.
"Well, uncle, what can I do for you?" It was Mark who spoke. "Well, sah, seein' as how I found a lettah addressed to you " "A letter?" "Yes, sah." The old darkey was fumbling with his hat, trying to withdraw the letter he had put away so carefully. "I found it down the street, sah, neah one of them thar big for'n houses." "Where?" The word was almost shouted as Mark jumped to his feet.
'Yes, murmured John gloomily, as he gnawed his lower lip and kept his eyes fixed on the fire. 'Well, continued the man from the Victory, 'I won't say that your brother's intended ha'n't got some ballast, which is very lucky for'n, as he might have picked up with a girl without a single copper nail. To be sure there was a time we had when we got into port!
"Shippin' 'fore de mahst ain't no job to make a preacher f'm a youngster; hit's plenty tough; but I ain't nevah been sorry I went to sea; effen a boy gwine take to likker an' wimmen, he kin git plenty o'both at home, same as in for'n ports."
'I'll claw his face for'n, let me only catch him! Well, she hunted about everywhere, ballyragging Jack by side and by seam, Jack lying a'most stifled inside the churn, and the poor maid or young woman rather standing at the door crying her eyes out. I shall never forget it, never! 'Twould have melted a marble stone! But she couldn't find him nowhere at all."
They went up to her and clasped her round, but still her sobs tore her. "Get some water," said Marian, "She's upset by us, poor thing, poor thing!" They gently led her back to the side of her bed, where they kissed her warmly. "You are best for'n," said Marian. "More ladylike, and a better scholar than we, especially since he had taught 'ee so much. But even you ought to be proud.
Henchard has never cussed me unfairly ever since I've worked for'n, seeing I be but a little small man, I must say that I have never before tasted such rough bread as has been made from Henchard's wheat lately. 'Tis that growed out that ye could a'most call it malt, and there's a list at bottom o' the loaf as thick as the sole of one's shoe."
But 'a got a good deal talked about; and they say there's promotion in store for'n. At this point in the story Jim Cornick stopped to drink, and a low unconscious humming came from Anne in her distant corner; the faint melody continued more or less when the conversation between the sailor and the Lovedays was renewed. 'We heard afore that the Victory was near knocked to pieces, said the miller.
"A very clever and learned young doctor, who, they say, is in league with the devil, lives in the place you be going to not because there's anybody for'n to cure there, but because 'tis the middle of his district." The observation was flung at the barber by one of the women at parting, as a last attempt to get at his errand that way.
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