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Kennedy's pronounciation of French was not always correct, and John, who chanced to be within hearing, caught eagerly at the last word, exclaiming, "Ki! dem trouses must cost a heap sight mor'n mine! What dis nigger spec' 'em can be?" and he glanced ruefully at his own glazed pants of corduroy, which had done him service for two or three years.
Ellen drew a quick, impatient breath. "You mean to say you'd set yourself up as knowin' mor'n your people before you did?" "I believe each generation grows wiser, or ought to wiser and kinder." "Kindness has nothin' to do with it." "Yes, it has," persisted Lucy softly. "Unless we become more kind, how is the world ever to become better?" "Pish!" ejaculated Ellen. "Now see here.
I said I did. "Well, Marse Luke Sumner libbed dar. De big house dat he libbed in is done torn down, and de small one made outen it. He is done ded now, and when he libbed dar is mor'n a hundred years ago. His gran-son, Marse Joe Riddick, now own de place and libs at it. He mus be ni eighty year old.
When we started out ag'in, we kep' on up one street an' down another, an' askin' everybody who looked as if they had two grains of sense, which most of 'em didn't look as if they had mor'n one, an' that was in use to get 'em to where they was goin. At last, a little ways down a small street, we seed a crowd, an' the minute we see it Jone an' me both said in our inside hearts: 'There she is! An' sure enough, when we got there, who should we see, with a ring of street-loafers an' boys around her, but Mrs.
As the door of the press-room, in which men were at work, stood open, the editor felt no alarm from the sudden appearance of the burly figure before him, but, supposing the man had been drinking, he said impatiently: "Please state your business briefly, as my time is valuable." "If yer time is worth mor'n news, I'll go to another shop," said Pat stiffly, making a feint of departure.
The breakfast table was set for one, and the black steward was lolling lazily in a chair. At sight of me he got to his feet. "Ah suah thought you was n't nebber goin' ter wake up, sah," he said genially, showing his teeth. "Ah bin waitin' fer yer mor'n two hours, Ah reckon." "For me! Have the others eaten then?" "Mostly, sah, mostly.
"I heerd said dey done brought de body ob de ol' Jedge home, sah he died mighty sudden sumwhar up de ribber. Thet's 'bout all I know." "When was this?" "'Bout a week maybe mor'n dat ago. De Warrior brought de body down, sah." "The Warrior? Did anyone go ashore with it?" "Pears like thar wus two men stopped off at de Landin'. I disremember de names, but one ob 'em wus an ol' friend ob de Jedge's."
"Yer'l surely excuse me, sah," he said at last, humbly, his voice with a note of pleading in it. "Ah's feelin' friendly 'nough, an' all dat, sah, but still yer mus' 'member dat Ah's talkin' ter a perfict stranger. If yer wud sure tell me furst just whut yer was aimin' at, then maybe Ah'd know a heap mor'n Ah do now." "I guess you are right, Sam. I'll tell you the whole of it.
"I should not have come for a horse if I had not wished to get home," said Mellen, impatiently. "Get one out at once, Benson; I am in great haste." "'Taint a decent night to put a dog out o' doors," returned the fisherman; "it's a good deal mor'n likely you'd get swamped in the marsh, if I let the hoss go." "Nonsense!" exclaimed Mellen. "I know this part of the country too well for that.
"Aw, look here!" he began, with his voice very near to tears. Then he gulped and took a more warlike tone. "I don't set m'self up t' be a know-it-all but I guess I can tell when a man's full uh booze. Two or three uh yuh have licked me mor'n once but that's all right. I'm willing t' back up anything I've said, and yuh can wade right in a soon as you're a mind to. "I don't back down a darn inch.
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