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Updated: June 15, 2025
"I was tellin' Shade how bad you wanted to git off, and that I 'lowed you'd be a good bargain for him." He looked hopefully from one to the other, as though he expected to see his advice accepted and put into immediate practice. Johnnie laughed whole-heartedly. "Pap," she said with shining eyes, "if you get me a husband, I'll have to give you a commission on it.
Now and then a calf lowed slowly and broke into a gallop. They were yearning for home, and Pelle was yearning too. From behind a hollow the sun darted long rays out into space, as if it had called all its powers home for the night, and now poured them forth in one great longing, from west to east. Everything pointed in long thin lines, and the eager longing of the cattle seemed visible in the air.
She wuz a monst'us lackly gal, tall en soopl', wid big eyes, en a small foot, en a lively tongue, en w'en Dan tuk ter gwine wid 'er eve'ybody 'lowed dey wuz well match', en none er de yuther nigger men on de plantation das' ter go nigh her, fer dey wuz all feared er Dan. "Now, it happen' dat dis yer cunjuh man's son wuz gwine 'long de road one day, w'en who sh'd come pas' but Mahaly.
Beyond which he had ne'er a trap. He 'lowed he just set deadfalls a good name for his work, I'm thinking now. Anyhow, he came back with enough gear, stolen off French Rooms to t' south, I reckon, to get his boat afloat by t' time t' owners got back. "She were an odd craft, built for a crew of one man only. For Skipper Bill hadn't much trust in any man 'cept hisself.
"Who is it calls Pete?" "Why, they, don't you know? I 'lowed you knowed about things. They called Pete last night. The moonlight things was out, and all the shadow things; didn't you see them, Mister? The moonlight things, the wind, the stars, the shadow things, and all the rest played with Pete in the shiny mists, and, course, I was along.
I've been a tramp fur a year, and I 'lowed I'd run onter ye sometime, but 'twas all unexpected when I seed the gal t'other day." "And you murdered her, murdered my sister?" "Wal, 'twould a-b'en justice ef I had." "Oh, you wretch " "'Twont do no good to call names, pard; they never hurted anybody yet 'at I knows of," sneered the tramp, still holding his knife ready for instant use.
I knowed then thet Sonny wasn't never comin' down while the rector was there, an' rector, he seemed sort o' fretted for a minute when he see how things was, an' he did try to do a little settin' fo'th of opinions. He 'lowed, speakin' in a mighty pompious manner, thet holy things wasn't to be trifled with, an' thet he had come to baptize the child accordin' to the rites o' the church.
"Do you find it anything like the thing expected?" No New Yorker can allow a stranger to be unimpressed with that sky-line. "I didn't have no notion what to expect." Samson's voice was matter-of- fact. "I 'lowed I'd jest wait and see." He followed Lescott out to the foot of Twenty-third Street, and stepped with him into the tonneau of the painter's waiting car.
The first notes of the bells, pealing solemnly, were summoning worshippers to mass, the birds were singing in the garden, and the cocks were crowing in the yards of the houses. The animals passing in the street lowed, grunted, and cackled merrily in the dawn of the young day.
It was a woman's voice, but it came from a figure wearing a man's hat and coat. Lysander stopped the mules. "Why, Minervy! what's up?" "Oh, nothin'. I just walked a ways to meet you." The woman climbed up beside her husband. "You're later 'n I 'lowed you'd be. Something must 'a' kep' you." "Yes, I come around by the winery.
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