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Then, with an attempt at rough humour, I added, "But as I told you once, the knot is'nt at my throat, and I'll tie another one yet elsewhere, if God loves honest men." I had no hope at all, yet I felt I must say it. He nodded, but said nothing, and presently I was alone.
I counted it long time ago." Then the Heavenly voice was repeated. I asked, "Is'nt Lateinos" the right name? I received the answer: No.
"I hope, captain, to merit your praise to the end of the voyage." The young sailor made a bow, and was about returning to his duty. "Avast, a bit," interrupted the captain. "Your name's Toodlebug, is'nt it, my hearty?" "Yes, sir," replied Tite. "Titus Bright Toodleburg; usually called Tite. Hope, sir, to improve myself in navigation and seamanship under your command.
Then, with an attempt at rough humour, I added, "But as I told you once, the knot is'nt at my throat, and I'll tie another one yet elsewhere, if God loves honest men." I had no hope at all, yet I felt I must say it. He nodded, but said nothing, and presently I was alone.
"Well, no, Alice," I answered slowly, "but I found it a little queer, that was all." "Queer world, is'nt it Amey?" I smiled, and still looking into the fire said, as if in soliloquy. "How much alike we girls are. I came to that very conclusion an hour ago before my own embers." "What reason have you to think that?" she said, with a wondering look in her beautiful blue eyes.
"Is'nt it curious, Neal, that Maurice and I are going back to welcome an aunt whom we have never seen, and that you are taking an unknown uncle home with you?" Then, after a pause, she spoke again. "It's like a kind of fate, Neal, one of the things which happen to people, and alter all their lives, and they can't do anything to help themselves.
Why, I have seen her almost put her hand on the knob twice in an afternoon perhaps, then draw back as if she was afraid it would burn her; and if by any chance the door opened and Mr. Blake came out, you ought to have seen how she run. What it all means I don't know, but I have my imaginings, and if she is'nt crazy, why " etc., etc.
"The southerners, who are both as proud and as sarcy as the British, call us Eastern folk Yankees as a term of reproach, because having no slaves, we are obliged to be our own niggers and do our own work, which is'nt considered very genteel, and as we are intelligent, enterprising, and skilful, and therefore too often creditors of our more luxurious countrymen, they do not like us the better for that, and not being Puritans themselves, are apt to style us scornfully, those 'd d Yankees.
Pay me my money and take her away as quick as you can, that's my advice, or before you know it you'll be nabbed. 'Pay ye! he yelled; 'do you think I'd pay you anything for that little Jew? 'She's just as much a Christian as you are, says I. 'Ain't you a Christian, little gal? and is'nt this gentleman your father? and ain't you surprised that he wants to give you back to be put in the bag? I said this hopin' she'd have sense enough to say he was her father so's to get rid of me.
I think the majority ought to rule in all things, and that it is the duty of the minority to submit. Now, I've had this here sentiment thrown back upon me, in some places where I have spoken, and been asked 'how is this the majority must rule, and the minority must submit in that case, the minority is'nt as good as the majority in practice, and hasn't the same right.
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