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Bring me my bonnet and shawl. Don't you see my niece waiting for me at the gate?" "Hyuh dey is, hyuh dey is!" returned Dinah, producing the bonnet and shawl, and assisting Mrs. Ochiltree to put them on. Leaning on William's arm, the old lady went slowly down the walk, and was handed to the rear seat with Mrs. Carteret. "How's the baby to-day, Olivia, and why didn't you bring him?"
"I I don' know, suh I I'll ax Mars' Turner. He's hyuh." He disappeared round the house and in a few minutes returned with Turner, with whom the colonel exchanged curt nods. "I wish to see Mr. Fetters," said the colonel. "Well, you can't see him." "Why not?" "Because he ain't here. He left for the capital this mornin', to be gone a week. You'll be havin' a fine drive, down here and back."
"An' dem gelmun wouldn' play t'-night, no way; mos' on 'em goin' wid you to-morrer an' dey sayin' goodby to de'r folks dis evenin', not gamblin'! Miz Tanberry'll be in a state er mine ontel she hyuh f'um me, an' I goin' hurry back. You won' come dah, suh? I kin tell her dat you say you sutney ain' comin' nigh our neighborhood dis night?" "I had not dreamed of coming, tell her, please.
He is English, but we shall forgive him because he is a such ole frien' of mine." "Ah, yes," said Mellin. "Remember seeing you on the boat, running across the pond." "Yes, ev coss," responded Mr. Sneyd cordially. "I wawsn't so fawchnit as to meet you, but dyuh eold Cooley's talked ev you often. Heop I sh'll see maw of you hyuh."
"Yas, suh, I knows, suh, de mil' ones, dem wid de gol' ban's 'roun' 'em. Now you stay right hyuh, chile, till Peter come back." Peter came up the steps and disappeared in the doorway. The colonel opened a letter from Kirby, in which that energetic and versatile gentleman assured the colonel that he had evolved a great scheme, in which there were millions for those who would go into it.
"But dere wuz trouble after de fune'al, an' it happen' right hyuh in dis lib'ary. Mars Sam wuz settin' by de table, w'en Mis' Polly come downstairs, slow an' solemn, an' stood dere in de middle er de flo', all in black, till Mars Sam sot a cheer fer her. "'Well, Samuel, says she, 'now dat we've done all we can fer po' 'Liz'beth, it only 'mains fer us ter consider Olivia's future.
Again he looked around him, stealthily. "It's h'anted!" said he, desperately. "Missis, listen: I 'uz comin' home from prayer-meetin', 'bout two weeks ago, walkin' back er dis same place in de dark ob de moon. An' all ob a suddin I hyuh de pianner in de pahlor, ting-a-ling-a-ling! ting-a-ling-a-ling!
Tell him Jane Tanberry beg him to stay in he own room dis night, an' dat she beg it on her bented knees! An' dis she say to me when I tole her what Nelson see in dat house dis evenin'. An' hyuh I is, an' hyuh yew is, an' de blessed Jesus be thank', you ir hyuh!" Tom regarded her with a grave attention. "What made Mrs. Tanberry think I might be coming there to-night?"
Simp, who had been endeavoring to recollect some passages of his address, in the case of the Jeemses, for that address had an universal application, and might mean as much now as on the original occasion, brought down one of those decayed boots which the marchand des habits had thrice refused to buy, and said, stoutly: "'By Gad! think of it, hyuh am I, a beggah, by Gad, without shoes to my feet, suh!
"You sa-ay 'What we a-doin' hyuh? Well, suh, I mought sa-ay we ain't a-doin' nuth'n'; but I" he squirted again "will sa-ay that so fah as you see what we a-doin', you kin see, an' welcome; an' so fah as you don't see, it ain't none o' yo' damn' busi-ness." "Oh, that's all right, I was only asking a friendly question."
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