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I shook my head, uncertain just what stand to take. "Nevar!" he went on, barely pausing for breath. "I show ze damn half-breed; you vait, I git heem." "What do you mean by half-breed, Broussard?" I questioned, surprised. He laughed, but not pleasantly. "He vas ze mongrel sure; you know not zat? Sacre, I tell you zen. What you zink him, white man? Pah! you see hees mother she mulatto. Ze damn dog!"
Even the rector grew very white in the face, so white that one of his vestry-men begged him to sit down at once, and sprinkled a few drops of water on his forehead, to his great disgust and manifest advantage. The old landlady was crying and moaning, and her husband was wiping his eyes and shaking his head sadly. "She will nevar come out alive," he said solemnly.
"How do you know that?" "How I know! I tell you I sail with heem long while. He nevar tell, but I fin' eet out. I listen, I hear ze talk, but I say noddings, M'sieur. Vat I care while he treat me right? But now I show heem vat I know. He not lord eet over me ven ol' Sallie vas his mother by Gar! no!" "Sallie! You cannot mean that mulatto woman back on the plantation?" "Sure, the ol' rip."
"You nevar forget you not one of us, do you?" she questioned in sudden bitterness of spirit. "Pah! maybe you tink I care what you like. I dance because I lofe to; because it sets my blood on fire. I no care for all your airs of fine lady." "I exceedingly regret you should feel so. I certainly spoke in kindness and appreciation. Would you permit me to pass?"
My native sepoy-guard, they laughed at me! By Jove! I was such a fearful man. Nevar mind thatt. I go on colloquially ... I send word many times that these two Kings were sold to the North; and Mahbub Ali, who was yet farther North, amply confirmed it. Nothing was done. Only my feet were frozen, and a toe dropped off.
He examined me closely, and having made, as it were, a mental inventory of my features, dress, &c., exclaimed, "Mine friend, in dese times nobody knows who's which. I say, sar, nobody knows who's what. Fellers land here and eats mine grub, and den shoves off dere poats, and nevar says 'tank you, sar, for mine grub. Since de confederate war all men is skamps, I does fully pelieve.
The calm weather which continued gave Zac many opportunities of drifting away towards Margot, and talking with her, in which talks they gradually grew to be better acquainted. "I am so happy zat I spik Ingelis!" said Margot; "I nevar did sink dat it was evare useful."
Even the rector grew very white in the face, so white that one of his vestry-men begged him to sit down at once, and sprinkled a few drops of water on his forehead, to his great disgust and manifest advantage. The old landlady was crying and moaning, and her husband was wiping his eyes and shaking his head sadly. "She will nevar come out alive," he said solemnly.
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