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"Four or five miles up that cape are the Boskednan Circles and the Dawns-un, old Druidic stone temples. Just across the peninsula is St. Ives, where the virgin Hya appeared miraculously. It is really regrettable, Madden, that you are leaving England before you tour Cornwall. A wonderful little island, England. A land to live for or to die for, God willing."
Mass'r Toney he angry, tell 'im go; and de boat captain he go angry like de rest. Hya! hya! hya!" "And why should Aurore command such a price?" "Oh! she berry good gal berry good gal but " Scipio hesitated a moment "but " "Well?" "I don't b'lieve, mass'r, daat's de reason." "What, then?" "Why, mass'r, to tell de troof, I b'lieve dar all bad men daat wanted to buy de gal."
"What for, Snowy!" echoed the sailor, turning upon his interrogator an expectant look. "Why we no make de fire up hya?" The conversation was carried on upon the back of the whale, where the sharks had been butchered and cut up. "Up here!" again echoed the sailor, still showing surprise. "What matter whether it be up here or down theear, so long's we've got no vessel, neyther pot nor pan?"
"Hya, Massa Brace, jess to la'bord, ober de la'bord bow." "It do look like land," assented the sailor, directing his glance upon something of a strange appearance, low down upon the surface of the sea, and still but dimly discernible through the fog. "Shiver my timbers if it don't! An island it be, not a very big 'un, but for all that, it seem a island." "My gollies! dar am people on it!
"Berry like, berry like he gone way," said Snowball, in reply to the interrogatory of little William. "A good ting if dat am de fack; fo' den we hab chance to hook up some o' dese hya abbacore. See dem now! Doan' you see how berry different dey are behavin'. Dey no longer 'feerd. Dat am sign dat de long snout hab turn him nose in some oder direcshun. He gone fo' sartin."
Its light, gleaming through the fog, had betrayed their presence to those upon the raft; and the order issued to take to the oars, with the confused plashing that quickly followed, told the Catamarans that the big raft was about to bear down upon them! "Dar coming on!" muttered Snowball. "Wha' we better do, Massa Brace? Ef we stay hya dey detroy us fo' sartin."
"Hya! spitch!" nervously muttered Clark, cutting his own top-boots with a dog-whip. "I wish I was out of the business: the risk is too great. My wife is religious praying, mebbe, now, in there. My daughters is at the seminaries, spendin' money like the Canawl Company on the lawyers. Nothin' pays like nigger-stealin', but it's beneath you and me, Van Dorn." "A la verdad!
"Nebber fear, mass' Edwad, always get nuff to eat; no fear for dat. Da poor runaway hab some friend on de plantations. Beside he steal nuff to keep 'im 'live hya! hya!" "Oh!" "Gabr'l no need steal now, 'ceptin' de roasting yeers and de millyuns. See! what Zip fetch im! Zip come las night to de edge ob de woods an' fetch all dat plunder. But, mass', you 'skoose me. Forgot you am hungry.
'Command him black nigger when I was in the Saarbruck. Ole Pambe, good ole Pambe. Dam lascar. Show him up, Sar; and he followed into the room. One glance told the stoker what the kind gentleman had overlooked. Pambe was desperately poor. Nurkeed drove his hands deep into his pockets, then advanced with clenched fists on the sick, shouting, 'Hya, Pambe. Hya! Hee-ah! Hulla! Heh! Takilo! Takilo!
Hya! hya!" The tone of Scipio's laugh showed that he was more than satisfied proud, in fact of being the father of so light-skinned and pretty a little creature as Chloe!
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