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"I ain't gwineter take it," she snapped back in a positive tone. St. George laid his hand tenderly on the old woman's shoulder. She had served him faithfully for many years and he was very fond of her. "Tuck it in your bosom, aunty it should have been paid long ago." She looked at him shrewdly: "Did de bank pay ye yit, Marse George?" No
Rutter, who had seen his in-rush, sat aghast. Had Alec, too, given way, she wondered old Alec who had had full charge of the wine cellar for years! But the old man pressed on, still shouting, his voice almost gone, his eyes bursting from his head. "Dey's gwineter murder Marse Harry I seen 'em! Oh! whar's de colonel! Won't somebody please Oh, my Gawd! dis is awful!
I'm gwineter show dis nigger dat all de gooses on my plantation got mo' den one leg. "I followed 'long, trapesin' after de whole kit an' b'ilin', an' when we got to de pond" here Chad nearly went into a convulsion with suppressed laughter "dar was de gooses sittin' on a log in de middle of dat ole green goose-pond wid one leg stuck down so an' de udder tucked under de wing."
The mulatto and the dogs disappeared from the upper edge of the pit. As his head came up above the level of the flooring Benson saw the mulatto and the dogs in the next room, the connecting door of which had been taken from its hinges. "Come right in, Marse Benson. Dere am' nuffin' gwineter hu't yo'," came the rascal's voice reassuringly.
De good Lawd bless you, lady, an' Miste' Brice," said the old negress. "Well, Nancy?" Nancy pressed into the room. "Mis' Brice!" "Yes?" "Ain' you gwineter' low Hester an' me to wuk fo' you?" "Indeed I should be glad to, Nancy. But we are boarding." "Yassm, yassm," said Nancy, and relapsed into awkward silence. Then again, "Mis' Brice!" "Yes, Nancy?"
I come yere 'cause I knowed ye didn't hab no money to keep me, an' I got back de ol' furniture what I had fo' I come to lib wid ye, an' went to washin', an' if dat yaller skunk's been tellin' any lies 'bout me I'm gwineter wring his neck." "No, let Todd alone," laughed St. George, his heart warming to the old woman at this further proof of her love for him.
"But, Brer Remus, you ain't " "I mout drap in, Brer Rastus, an' den ag'in I moutn't, but w'en you duz see me santer in de do', wid my specs on, you k'n des say to de congergashun, sorter familious like, 'Yer come ole man Remus wid his hoss-pistol, an' ef dar's much uv a skuffle 'roun' yer dis evenin' you er gwineter year fum 'im. Dat's me, an' dat's what you kin tell um. So long!
And we had him up to the sick-room, and had a high talk; and Tom give Jim forty dollars for being prisoner for us so patient, and doing it up so good, and Jim was pleased most to death, and busted out, and says: "DAH, now, Huck, what I tell you? what I tell you up dah on Jackson islan'? I TOLE you I got a hairy breas', en what's de sign un it; en I TOLE you I ben rich wunst, en gwineter to be rich AGIN; en it's come true; en heah she is!
Colfax's trunk was brought down and placed in the carriage where three of them might have ridden to safety, a groan of despair and entreaty rose from the faithful group that went to her heart. "Miss Jinny, you ain't gwineter leave yo' ol mammy?" "Hush, Mammy," she said. "No, you shall all go, if I have to stay myself. Ephum, go to the livery stable and get another carriage."
He laughed, but I found nothing humorous in the allusion. "Did I say 'oman, Marse Cally?" I shook my head. "Kaze ef I did, it slipped out des dry so. I wuz comin' atter you anyhow, but Marse Harry holla'd at me an' tol' me fer ter fin' you an' say dat de troops gwineter move in de mornin' an' our comp'ny starts fust."
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