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Updated: June 8, 2025
At a break in the talk, the girl, who, though she had constantly busied herself about the room, had missed not a word, nodded significantly to her father, then walked from the house and out into the night. He glanced after her for a moment, then turned with a queer smile. "We're all 'baout the same, I reckon," he said, "so far as furren countries is consarned.
As the cars drew into the station they tooted their delight agin and agin at our safe return as the train stopped. As we walked up the platform I see Josiah furtively on-button his stiff linen cuffs as if preparin' to throw 'em off for life. His face radiant, and hummin' sotey vosey his favorite ballad: "Hum agin, hum agin, from a furren shore."
She has heard that "country people in furren parts a'most live upon slops and grass and eggs and frogs, and supposes that's the reason Frenchmen are so small and dark-complected."
He just streaked it up that runway and into his old stall like he was a prodigal son come back from furren parts. "Yes, Tim he's out on the truck with his old team. Tim don't have to drive nowadays, you know. Brother of his that was in the contractin' business died about three months ago an' left Tim quite a pile.
Come back to stop?" "No; going back to furren abroad." "Then what's the good of my master building up the house again?" "What? Did he?" "Ay; came and see me doing up your garden as it had never been done up before, and went away and ordered in the workpeople." "Hum!" said Nat. "Ha!" said Samson. "Well, aren't you going to shake hands?" "Ay, might as well. How are you, Nat?"
"Furren, I should say, sir, by the way she speaks. I arskt her if she had an appointment, and she said no, but she said she wanted to see you on very urgent and particular business. I told her most people says that wot comes to see you, but she says hers was reely important. Arskt me to tell you, sir, that it was about the Riversbrook case." "The Riversbrook case? I'll see her, Joe.
That piece of paper was sent me by a man up in the mountains of Old Harpeth, who loves me with the same blood bond that I love you, boy, all on account of a gun struck up in the hands of his enemy. Here's the note he sent with it. "Bill, we cotched a furren man fer a revenue up by the still at Turkey Gulch and this was in his pocket. I made out to read yo name. I send it. The man is kept tied.
"'I think yer wrong thar, sez I. 'Now, look here. To enter a country parish is to be almost unknown, an' people say, 'Oh, he's only a country parson, an' they stick up their ugly noses, which they think are acristocat. But let a man go to a furren field, an', my lands! they blubber over 'im an' make a great fuss.
M um! but they're some, them furren fellers; only it seems to me they ain't no need of so many of them niggers of all shades, dressed up like Callathumpians on Fourth of July, and standin' round in everybody's way. I was not there to impart information, and I let the honest soul babble on.
But I never knew I never knew," cried Hervey regretfully, with his vividly blue eyes on the mummy. "I could jes' kick myself, gentlemen, when I think of the miss." "Then you didn't steal the manuscript along with the emeralds?" "Wal, I did," cried Hervey, turning to Archie, who had spoken, "but it was in a furren lingo, to which I didn't catch on.
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