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"Who's dose beeg, tall people w'at stan' 'longside of you, Miz Gale?" he called to her; then, shading his eyes elaborately, he cried, in a great voice: "Wall! wal! I b'lieve dat's M'sieu Jean an' Mam'selle Mollee. Ba Gar! Dey get so beeg w'ile I'm gone I don' know dem no more!" The youthful Gales wriggled at this delicious flattery and dug their tiny moccasined toes into the sand.
"Wa'al," the narrator proceeded, "I looked the critter over an' made up my mind about what he was wuth to me, an' went back an' got in, an' drove into the yard, an' turned 'round, an' drew up agin 'longside the stoop. 'Lizer looked up at me in an askin' kind of a way, but he didn't say anythin'.
"Massa Rodney," he bawled, "Massa Rodney, de gent's 'longside him an' Wilkinson yaas, by de good Lord dey'se both dere! Dey hail me an' I answer and say who are you, and dey say are you de Boca? We am, I say, and dey say " I had stood stupidly staring at him, but my full understanding coming to me on a sudden, I jumped to the ladder and darted on deck.
Well, this is going to be a treat! But, say, Master Ralph, will them Edens fight 'longside of us without being nasty?" "Yes, because it's against a common enemy," said the lad. "Common? They just are, sir. Commonest muck o' men. Fit for nothing but putting under ground. Why, how I should like to take my old mother with us, and let her loose at that there captain.
"Just you stick to me, peaches, and there ain't one at that table that's got on anything you can't have twice over. I know that gang the pink queen and all. 'Longside of you they look like stacks o' bones tied up in a rag o' satin." "Aw, Jimmie, look at 'em, so blond and all!" "They're a broken-winded bunch. Look at them bottles on their table!
I caan't feel 'tis so yet. I caan't feel as he'm truly dead. An' yet 'twas no lie, for I seed en, an' stood 'longside of en." "God's Hand be everywheer in it. Think if I'd read poor Joan's letter an' tawld 'e wheer the man's plaace of livin' was!" "Iss, then I'd have slain en. 'Tis such lil things do mark out our paths.
Presently he awoke completely, sat up, and scratched his head. It was the power of a soft and gentle but persistent influence triumphantly asserted. "W'ass-'e-marrer?" asked Ian, without moving. "O-gor-o-sleep," returned Ian. "Niagara have com to de plains!" exclaimed Rollin, rising to a sitting posture in desperation. "It have been rush 'longside of me spine for two hours by de cloke. Oui."
Having delivered himself of this choice morsel of song, the half-witted fellow conceitedly challenged the attention of the group whom he had not hitherto been disposed to see. "'Spose you reckon I don't see you, riding 'longside of me, and saying nothing, but listening to my song.
"If so be He cares," said Jim to himself "if so be He cares for a little buildin' as don't make no show 'longside o' His doin's up thar an' down here, I hope He sees that I've got this Bible under my head, an' knows what I mean by it. I hope the thing'll strike 'im favorable, an' that He knows, if He cares, that I'm obleeged to 'im."
On a sudden dere was a man right 'longside ob me, an' he say, 'Make a noise or move, an' you are dead. What are you doin' here? I gasp out, 'White-rose, Cap'n Lane. 'Oh, it's you, he say, wid a low larf. Fo' I could speak dere come a scream, sich as I neber heared, den anoder an' anoder.
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