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I affected to be made more cheerful by this, but I knew that no man can serve two masters, especially when he is the "pussenal propity" of one; but I forbore to warn the deluded African of the tribulations ahead of him. "Miss Cahline comin' this yeh time a' yeah so's 't'll seem mo' soft an' homelike. Ah gaiss she go'n' a' sprighten raght up when she see th' summeh time all pleasant."
One of my comrades was shot in the leg while digging a refuse pit. The wound was a bad one and he suffered much pain, but the humiliation was even harder to bear. What could he tell them at home? "Do you think I'm a go'n' to s'y I was a-carryin' a sandbag full of old jam tins back to the refuse pit w'en Fritzie gave me this 'ere one in the leg? Not so bloomin' likely!
At that second the last inspiration of the evening caught him. Across the street arose the mighty pile of an enormous uptown hotel. Strong jerked his thumb over his shoulder. "Go'n' break it to m' fam'ly by telegraph' 'em," he stated, and bitterly Rex repented of that thoughtless mention of the Strongs to their son and heir.
She ain't go'n' a' stan' no nonsense lahk that, seh; she ain't go'n a' have no lawyeh mixin' up in huh private mattehs. Ah lahk t' see one try it yes, seh." He gazed vacantly into the distance, then laughed aloud as he beheld the discomfiture of the "lawyeh" in this suppositious proceeding. "And you even let your wife go? that must have been hard." "Well, seh, not to say mah wife.
Sarah withdrew the gold-piece and put a larger one in its place. "There," she said; "let's make it ten dollars, and save time." Bub's hesitation vanished, but he asked anxiously: "Tain't go'n' to do no harm to them gals thet's stoppin' here, is it?" "It is to do them a good turn that I'm sending this telegram." "Honor bright?" "Hope to die, Bub." "All right; I'm off."
"Oh!" cried Tode, in a tone of relief, "I'll go'n see her;" and waiting for no further words, he went. "Well," exclaimed Mrs. Hunt, "he might 'a' told us how he got hurt an' all, 'fore he rushed off, I should think." "Jus' like that Tode Bryan. He don't know nothin'!" remarked Dick, scornfully. His mother gave him a searching glance. "There's worse boys than Tode Bryan, I'm afraid," she said.
He knew he could defend himself from any assault the crew might make in that condition. But they made none. They stopped a little way from him, some drunkenly grave, others winking or leering, some abusive and threatening. "Go'n' tuh 'lect 'nother captain," announced Mulcher thickly. "You no reg'lar hofficer!" "You 'it a man for 'elpin' you, and 'urt 'is eye!"
Miss Cahline sh' ain't wantin' huh breakfus' twell yo's done, an' she'll tek huh dinneh uhliah. Ah manage, Mahstah Majah. Ah mek all mah reddiments, yes, seh yo's go'n' a' be jes' lahk mah own folks."
"I seen 'em a-settin' on a stump back er the school," volunteered one small boy, "Want me ter go'n look for 'em?"
My! You don't know the times I've sneaked in and set in this room when you was away. And even now, if you're go'n' to be out pretty late, I bring in my work 'most always when your pa's out. I generally slip back to my room before you come in, because I know you think I oughtn't to be sittin' up. You mightn't just understand that 'twas because this is my only real home." "Your only real home?
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