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I see it," groaned Marm Parraday, clasping her trembling hands. "But, believe me, Janice Day, I never seen this that's come to us. We hev brought the curse of rum inter this taown after it had been free from it for years. An' we shell hafter suffer in the end an' suffer more'n anybody else is sufferin' through our fault."
Borne unmistakably on the night wind, voices came to them the soft voice of a woman, the deeper tones of a man. "One of the maids, I dare say," Sybilla said, carelessly, "holding tryst with her lover." "No," said the valet; "not one of the maids would set foot hinside this walk hafter nightfall for a kingdom! They say it's 'aunted.
Then, after a pause of about half a minute, he said this: "Who was he sayin' that to?" "Eh?" said Jaskett, again, with a puzzled expression. "I was thinkin'," said Stubbins, knocking out his pipe on the edge of the chest. "P'raps you're right, hafter all." Another Man to the Wheel The conversation had slacked off.
Ye did, for a fac'. But why not? Land sakes, there's room enough, an' to spare! Ye don't hafter put them pretty han's to housework. Betty Gallup'll do all that. An' you don't have to pay no board money. As for cookin' That remin's me. I'd better git to work on our supper. We'll be sharp for it 'fore long." "And and I may stay?" asked Louise, with some little embarrassment now.
It isn't near enough to any big city to be a real truck farm and I'm interested in bigger things. "No, sir. The Atterson Eighty is only a stepping stone for me. I hope I'll go higher before long." But Hiram was not at all sure that he would ever see a celery crop in this bottom-land. Pepper still "hung fire" and he would not go to Mr. Strickland with his option. "I don't hafter," he told Hiram.
"I reckon we 'll hafter tote 'im up ter de house and take keer er 'im dere. W'ite folks would n't want ter fool wid a nigger man, an' we doan know who his folks is. He 's outer his head an' will be fer some time yet, an' we can't tell nuthin' 'bout 'im tel he comes ter his senses." Cicely lifted the wounded man by the arms and shoulders.
Wiggins grew warm, and imbibed the generous coffee, her demeanor thawed perceptibly and she graciously vouchsafed the remark, "Ven you're hout late hag'in hi'll look hafter ye." Mrs. Mumpson had not been so far off as not to hear Jane's explanation, as the poor child found to her cost when she went up to bed. A Night of Terror
"Yes; with the estate," said Mr. Samuel Hart, coming up and joining them. Of the lot of men, Mr. Samuel Hart was the most distasteful to Mountjoy. He had last seen his Jew persecutor at Moscow, and had then, as he thought, been grossly insulted by him. "What are you hafter, captain?"
He sat down on a log and watched his brother go down the path, sobbing as usual, when he felt that he was a martyr. He sat long and thought. "It's bad," he sighed "a man cu'd do so much mo' in life if he didn't hafter waste so much time arguin' with fools. Well, I'm here fur the day an' I'll learn somethin'. Now, I wanter know if one squirrel er two squirrels stays in the same hole in winter.
"The Plott curs are the best: that is, half hound, half cur though what we-uns calls the cur, in this case, raelly comes from a big furrin dog that I don't rightly know the breed of. Fellers, you can talk as you please about a streak o' the cur spilin' a dog; but I know hit ain't so not for bear fightin' in these mountains, whar you cain't foller up on hossback, but hafter do your own runnin'."
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