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We were passing Bulford, about two miles before we reached Amesbury, when we observed the Serjeant-major and Butcher's uncle, who was another Serjeant, in deep and serious conference, upon which I exclaimed, by G-d, Butcher, your uncle and Pinkney are holding a council of war; and I will bet my life that some new difficulty will arise, so as after all to prevent our marching to the scene of action.
He then turned and faced me his head thrown back, his eyes blazing with wrath and pain. "Liar!" he cried again, "double-faced accursed liar! You have stolen HER you have fooled ME but, by G-d, you shall pay for it with your life!" "Willingly!"
Now listen: do you take that body at once and carry it away from here; if you don't, by G-d, you and I will have a settlement! You hear me; take it by the head, take it by the heels, take it any way you please, but get it out of here and don't let there be a hair of it remaining in this room at the end of three minutes from now!"
'I'll have nothing to do with that, said the other. 'Are you turned hen-hearted, Jack? 'No, by G-d, no more than yourself, but I won't. It was something like that stopped all the trade fifteen or twenty years ago. You have heard of the Loup? G-d, how he used to laugh when he showed us how he fetched him off the perch! 'Well, but it did up the trade for one while, said Jack.
The buck of the second-head, for a buck of the first-head he was not, had hitherto been slapping his boots with his switch-whip, and looking like a spoiled child that has lost its supper. His murmurs, however, were all vented inwardly, or at most in a soliloquy such as this 'I am sorry, by G-d, I ever plagued myself about her.
Yes, sir, a thousand pounds, by G-d! promised to pay me in three weeks; and when I was coming back, and asked him for my money, he laughed at me, and ordered his servant not to let me in. And now he has sent out his three daughters to me pawned them off upon me, laughing, I suppose, in his sleeve, as he did when he cheated me before.
To think that a Catherwood should be with the Yankees! You, Ben," he shouted, suddenly perceiving an object for his anger. "What do you mean by coming out of the yard? By G-d, I'll have you whipped. I'll show you niggers whether you're to be free or not." And Mr. Catherwood was a good man, who treated his servants well. Suddenly he dropped Virginia's hand and ran westward down the hill.
"No, by G-d!" he cried, "and I never will. I do not want to know your d d principles or grievances, or whatever they are. We were living an easy life, in the plenty of money, and nothing to complain of. You take it all away, with your cursed cant " I left him railing and swearing. And that was the last I saw of Tom Swain.
More than that, I'll show you how ONE man can do it; for, by the living G-d, if you don't hand over that paper I'll kill you where you sit! I'll give you until I count ten; if one of you moves he and you are dead men but YOU first!" Before he had finished speaking Hale and Rawlins had both risen, as if in concert, with their weapons drawn.
'I'll have nothing to do with that, said the other. 'Are you turned hen-hearted, Jack? 'No, by G-d, no more than yourself, but I won't. It was something like that stopped all the trade fifteen or twenty years ago. You have heard of the Loup? G-d, how he used to laugh when he showed us how he fetched him off the perch! 'Well, but it did up the trade for one while, said Jack.
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