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"And they be grand folks, ye say?" said Polly Ann. "Grand folks, I reckon. And helpless as babes on the Wilderness Trail. They had two niggers his nigger an' hers and they was tuckered, too, fer a fact. "Lawsy!" exclaimed Polly Ann. "Be still, honey!"
"But you givin' up your job!" gasped Phinney. "YOU! Why, what for?" "For instance, I guess. I ain't dependent on the wages, and I'm sick of the whole thing." "But what'll you do?" "Don't know." "You you won't leave town, will you? Lawsy mercy, I hope not!" "Don't know. Maybe I'll know better by and by. I've got to think things out. Run along now, like a good feller.
"You ruin her!" The bluff young Captain put down his glass to laugh. "Ruin her!" he exclaimed. "Her pa don't ruin her I eh, Ephum? Her pa don't ruin her!" "Lawsy, Marse Lige, I reckon he's wuss'n any." "Ephum," said the Colonel, pulling his goatee thoughtfully, "you're a damned impertinent nigger. I vow I'll sell you South one of these days. Have you taken that letter to Mr. Renault?"
Lawsy me, chile, when de Preacher-mans baptiz me he had duck me under de wateh twell I mos dron, de debbil he got such a holt on me an jes wont let go, but de Preacher-mans he kep a duckin me an he finaly shuck de debbil loose an he aint bother me much sence, dat is not very much, an dat am a long time ago.
His voice sounded excited. "Anybody hurt?" She was beginning to enjoy it all, feeling exhilarated over the drama of it. "Mist' Joe Mist' Joe Hoopah. He done fell offen de bridge into de ditch. Speck he done broke his laig." She caught her breath. "Dey done sen' me to git my cah. Said dey would lemme ketch up wid 'em. But Lawsy, de cah won' run."
"Look at dat spear he come near runnin' me t'rough wid! If he had, yo' could ha' driv a tipcart full o' rubbish in after it. Lawsy me!" But an hour later when Tom and his father started for the offices of the Swift Construction Company down the street, Rad and Koku were sitting before an enormous breakfast in the back kitchen and chatting together as companionably as ever.
I done got a bran', spankin' new allapaca, one time, an' do you think HE ebber seed it? Lawsy, no! We might jes' well be goin' roun' like Mudder Eve for all dat man know." Polly looked disappointed. "But udder folks sees," Mandy continued, comfortingly, "an' you certainly look mighty fine. Why, you's just as good now as you was afore you got hurled!" "Yes, I'm well now and able to work again."
The child instantly gained confidence at the slight caress, took a fold of Peter's trousers in his hand for friendliness, and the two trudged on together. "Wh-whut you talkin' to yo' se'f for?" Peter glanced down at the little black head that promised to think up a thousand questions. "I was wondering where to go." "Lawsy! is you los' yo' way?" He stroked the little head with a rush of self-pity.
D'Willerby said he reckoned I could hev moved right in ef I wanted to, but, Lawsy! I wouldn't have done it fer nothin'." But that which roused the greatest excitement in the community was Tom De Willoughby's course. At first Mrs. Doty's story of Big Tom's adoption of the child was scarcely accepted as being a possibility. The first man who heard it received it with a grin of disbelief.
"We didn't fetch Mis' Dawson back," explained Mrs. Bradley. "She met some old acquaintances the Hambrights an' they made 'er go home with 'em. Lawsy me, haven't I got a lots to tell you, though! You had as well prepare fer a big surprise. You couldn't guess what tuk place out thar atter you left ef you made a thousand dabs at it. Luke, go put up the hoss.
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