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Why can't you leave me alone?" Peter took his pipe out of his mouth and looked at his young partner in astonishment. His face turned a dull brick color and his blue eyes snapped. He spoke in a voice of portentous softness: "Who the hell do you think you are? A little gorramighty? To make a mistake is natural; to fly into a temper when it is discovered is childish.
Neb's voice came from the dim interior, muffled and skeptical. "What dat?" he said. "Don't want no foolishness 'round heah. I's ahmed." "It's me, Neb, me," she cried. "Th' stable 's burnin', Neb!" "Gorramighty!" she heard Neb exclaim, now in a voice expressive of great fright. "Dat's so, dat's so! Quick, honey, open up de doah!"
"'Niquity yerself!" snarled the Old Un, and snapping bony finger and thumb under Joe's massive chin, turned and went on up the stairs, his smart straw hat cocked at a defiant angle, his brilliant shoes creaking loudly at every step. "Oh, Gorramighty!" he panted, halting suddenly on the fifth landing to get his breath, "these perishin' stairs 'as ketched my wind, Joe; it's worse 'n th' treadmill!
"Flabby as a babby an' soft as a woman an' fat as a " Joe reached out very suddenly, and picking up the old man, armchair and all, shook him to and fro until he croaked for mercy. "Lor' gorramighty!" he panted, as Joe set him down again. "Fat, am I?" demanded Joe, scowling. "Fat as a 'og fat as forty bloomin' 'ogs!" cried the old man vindictively.
He live wi' ole Mass'r Sancon all him life. I believe war one ob Missy 'Genie gardiums, or whatever you call 'em. Gorramighty! what will young Missa do now? She hab no friends leff; and daat ole fox Gayarre he no good " Here the speaker suddenly interrupted himself, as if he feared that his tongue was going too freely.
"Gorramighty! don't mass'r know? Why, de young lady you fotch from de boat, when twar all ober a blaze. Lor! what a swum you make half cross de riber! Wugh!" "And am I in her house?" "Ob sartin, mass'r daat ar in de summer-house for de big house am on oder side ob de garden all de same, mass'r." "And how did I get here?" "Golly! don't mass'r 'member how?
"Go it, Guv!" he shrieked, "go it! In an' out again, that's it Gorramighty, I never see sich speed. Oh, keep at 'im, Guv make 'im cover up sock it into 'im, Guv! Ho, lumme, what footwork you're as quick as lightweights oh, 'appy, 'appy day! Go to it, both on ye!"
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