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Our friends being all landed, there can be nothing further to detain us here, we will therefore make the best of our way back to Amherstburg in the morning," "Yes, Massa Geral," returned the negro, yawning and half raising his brawny form from his rude couch with one hand, while he rubbed his heavy eyes with the knuckles of the other.
"'Massa Geral, he said in a mysterious whisper, for old age and long services in my family have given him privileges which I have neither the power nor the inclination to check 'Massa Geral, pulling me by the collar 'I dam ib he no go sleep when him ought to hab all him eyes about him him pretty fellow to keep watch when Yankee pass him in e channel.
He nebber go round: I see him come a down a ribber long afore he see a boat at all. "'Hush Sambo hush not a word, I returned in the same low whisper. "The villains are at some treason, and if we stir, we shall lose all chance of discovering it." "'Me no peak Massa Geral; but dam him lyin' teef, he continued to mutter, 'I wish I had him board a gun boat.
"Oh Massa Geral, for Hebben's sake no talkee dat. It berry long time ago, and break poor nigger heart to tink ob it " "But I insist on knowing," returned Gerald loudly and peremptorily; "were you old enough to recollect the curse that poor heart-broken woman, Ellen Halloway, uttered on all our race, and if so what was it?" "No, Massa Geral, I no sabby dat.
"I 'member long time ago, and he sighed, "'when Sambo no bigger nor dat paddle, one berry much like him. But, Massa Geral, Missis always tell me nebber talk o' dat. "'A villain he is, I believe, Sambo, but let us advance cautiously and discover what he is about.
"And, oh, her poets her Rubeiro, her Falcão, her Camoëns my own grandfather was thought worthy of a place in the 'Cancioneiro Geral'; and I too have made a Portuguese poem on the first aphorism of Hippocrates, though 'tis yet in manuscript." "But if thou darest not profess thy faith," said Gabriel, "'tis more than all the rest. To live a daily lie intolerable!" "Hoity-toity!
"How is it Sambo, that you had not sooner spoken of this? The pocket book contains papers that may be of importance; and yet there is now no means of forwarding it, unless I delay the schooner." "I only find him hab an hour ago, Massa Geral, when I go to make e beds and put e cabin to rights," said the old man, in a tone that showed he felt, and was pained by the reproof of his young master.
Would that I had had this proof of their participation before they quitted the schooner. Very well, Sambo, no blame can attach to you go to sleep, my good fellow, but not beyond the time I have given you." "Tankee, Massa Geral, "and drawing the collar of his pea jacket close under his ears, the negro again extended himself at his length upon the arm chest.
"'What do you mean then what have you seen?" I asked in the same low whisper, the policy of which his action had enjoined on me. "'Lookee dare, Massa Geral, lookee dare?
Senor Alvez Bhanco E Hollanda declared that "as a commemoration of the benefits which Brazil had derived from Lord Cochrane, there was no other conclusion than that he ought to be paid the whole sum which he claimed, for which the 'Assemblea Geral' should ask a credit."
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