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"And div ye really think we are gawn to let you see a' the world chuse? Na, lad, ye are putten oot o' the room, like witnesses." Flucker. "Then I'd toss a penny; for gien ye trust to luck, she whiles favors ye, but gien ye commence to reason and argefy ye're done!" Christie.
Ay tank she ees good ways off; her moder she ees gawn to churtz." Bradley no longer looked at the stars as he walked along the street. All his doubts and fears and his timidity and his reticence came back upon him, and something warm and sweet seemed to go out of the far vista of his life. He felt that he had lost her.
To the white people, she thought, it did not matter much, but to her the fact that she and Perry had intended to get married was the biggest thing in her life. "I don't know; I don't know," her thoughts ran bitterly. "Ef Perry tuk dat key away fum me, he mus' done gawn to dat house an' he wuz full uv likker.
"'I do call to mind, zur, what old Squire did use to zay to me: "Billy," 'e zays, "your grandchildren won't be fed, nor they won't 'ave the cottages, nor yet the clothes as you 'ave and your children. As zure as God's in Gloucester" 'e zays. They was rare old times, zur, and they be gawn." "What made you think of it, Barbara? I don't suppose he ever said two words to old Billy in his life."
"Gawn lea' me 'lone," he muttered. Then, as a little sphere touched his lips, he jerked his head away, startled. "Whassat?" Mrs. Schofield replied in tones honeysweet and coaxing: "It's just a nice little pill, Penrod." "Doe waw 'ny!" he protested, keeping his eyes shut, clinging to the sleep from which he was being riven. "Be a good boy, Penrod," she whispered.
"I have been track' thees mother lode," began old Bernique again, his feverish gaze again seeking out Bruce, "I think," he stopped and fell to musing, "What you gawn do, Mistaire Steering," he queried suddenly, with his weary old head twisted to one side, "what you gawn do about thees?" "Lord, Uncle Bernique, I can't do anything. You might do something for yourself.
Gimme time.... There they are. Go ahead." "Hello, hello!" "Pwhat is ut?" Her heart sank: O'Hagan's voice meant that Maitland was out. "O'Hagan is that you?... Tell Mr. Maitland " "He's gawn out for the noight an' " "Tell him, please " "But he's out. Ring up in the marnin'." "But can't you take this message for him? Please...."
Naow this miser'ble murderer, this Farrar, thet's lighted out er hyar, he's nothin' more'n a skunk, but he's got the Lawd arter him, naow. It's jest's well he's gawn; I never did b'leeve in hangin'. I never could. It's jest tew men dead 'stead o' one.
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