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The man behind them passed, looked back, stopped and returned. "Gen'lemen, sirs, to you. Mr. Mahch, escuse me by pyo accident earwhilin' yo' colloquial terms. I know e'zacly what cause yo' sick transit. Yass, seh. Thass the imagination. I've had it, myseff." March stopped haughtily, Fair moved out of hearing, and Cornelius spoke low, with a sweet smile. "Yass, seh.
Me and Jedge Mahch" he began to swell "has had a stric'ly private disparitude on the subjec' o' extry wages, account'n o' his disinterpretations o' my plans an' his ign'ance o' de law." He tilted his face and gave himself an argumentative frown of matchless insolence. "You see, my deah seh "
Mahch," he straightened, solemnly, and held himself sober "I was jess about to tell you what I jess evise Majo' Gyarnit espressin' to yo' maw jess accidental as I was earwhilin' aroun' Johanna, you know." "What was it? What did he say?" "O, it wan't much, what he say. He say, 'Sis' Mahch, you e'zac'ly right. Don't you on no accounts paht with so much's a' acre o' them lan's lessn "
Mahch, if you an' me was on'y in cahoots! En we kin be, seh, we kin why, hafe o' yo' lan's 'u'd be public lan's in no time, an' the res' 'u'd belong to a stawk comp'ny, an' me'n' you 'u'd be a-cuttin' off kewponds an' a-drivin' fas' hawses an' a-drinkin' champagne suppuz, an' champagne faw ow real frien's an' real pain faw ow sham frien's, an' plenty o' both kine thah goes Majo' Gyarnit's kerrige to him."
Thah she a-set'n' on a pile o' ceda'-tree poles, lookin' like the las' o' pea-time p-he-he-he! "Majo' Gyarnit? O yass, seh, he thah, too. Thass how come I lingud thah, seh, yass, seh, in espiration o' Johanna. Mr. Mahch, I loves that creatu' yit, seh! I means Johanna." "Oh! not Major Garnet," laughed John, gathering the reins. Cornelius sputtered with delight, and kept between the wheels. "Mr.
"Johanna, of course, if I stay here I shall keep entirely out of Mrs. Ravenel's sight, or " The girl made a despairing gesture that brought John's frown again. "Why, what?" he asked with a perplexed smile. "Law! Mr. Mahch, you cayn't all of a sudden do dat; dey'll on'y talk wuss." "Well, Johanna I'm not going to try it. I'm going to take the express train this evening."
Mahch, he was bereft o' any way to fetch her to he's maw less'n he taken her up behime o' his saddle, an' so it seem' like the Lawd's call faw us to come right along an' bring her hencefah, an' then, if she an' his maw fin' theyse'ves agreeable, then Mr. Mahch which his buggy happn to be here in Suez 'llow to give her his transpotes the balance o' the way to-morrow in hit."
The informant's booziness had returned. One foot kept slipping from a spoke of the fore-wheel. With pretence of perplexity he examined the wheel. "Mr. Mahch, this wheel sick; she mighty sick; got to see blacksmiff befo' she can eveh see Widewood." John looked. The word was true. He swore. The mulatto snickered, sagged against it and cocked his face importantly. "Mr.
"Lord! the lands take care for the wheel." But Mr. Leggett leaned heavily on the buggy. "Mr. Mahch, I evince an' repose you in confidence to wit: that long as you do like Gyarnit say " John gave a stare of menace. "Major Garnet, if you please." "Yass, seh, o' co'se; Majo' Gyarnit. I say, long as you do like he say, Widewood stay jess like it is, an' which it suit him like grapes suit a coon!"
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