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You c'n have him for nuthin'," said Lafitte. "He ain't worth nothin'. Besides, I can't charge a brother of the flag anything; anyhow, not you."
They all set forth on their errand of charity in high glee; but Jim returned from the expedition with a face and air of such portentous gravity, so different from his usual happy-go-lucky bearing, that Milly was moved to ask if any thing unpleasant had occurred. "Captain Yorke nor his folks didn't do nothin', Miss Milly," answered Jim. "Who, then?" asked Milly.
"O, I don't believe in such things; it's all talk. If people have feeling, they will show it, they can't help it; but, then, it's a great misfortune to have feeling. I'd rather have been made like St. Clare. My feelings prey upon me so!" "Sure, Missis, Mas'r St. Clare is gettin' thin as a shader. They say, he don't never eat nothin'," said Mammy.
She didn't know what'd happen but he just stared at her an' says, 'You give me some water an' stop talkin'." "Do you think he will die?" asked Mary. "Mother says there's no reason why any child should live that gets no fresh air an' doesn't do nothin' but lie on his back an' read picture-books an' take medicine.
"I am positive that Miss Shafto " "Mrs. Shafto," corrected the woman. "Mrs. Joe Shafto. Git the handle right." "I am positive that Mrs. Shafto will answer our purpose very nicely," finished Grace. "Yes, yes. I I agree with you," mumbled Tom. "If you have time, or when you do have time, we shall have to talk over our plans with you and " "Ain't got no time for nothin' to-day. Had yer dinners?"
"Ah cain' see nothin' o' dat beastes, Miss Beverly an' Ah Ah got mah suspicions," said Aunt Fanny, with sepulchral despair in her voice. "They've thrown the awful thing into the river," concluded Beverly. "Dey's cookin' hit!" said Aunt Fanny solemnly. "Good heaven, no!" cried Beverly. "Go and see, this minute. I wouldn't eat that catlike thing for the whole world."
And I went upstairs, ma'am, not imaginin' nothin' neither, and tapped at 'is door, and 'e didn't answer, so I opens it softly, and ses: ''Ow are you this mornin', sir? I ses, quite softly like, in a whisper, for fear of wakin' 'im if 'e should be asleep. Oh, dear! Oh, dear! I needn't 'a' bin so careful!
The 500 pounds. The gunner turned damned nasty at the last, and I had to square him with an extra hundred dollars or it would have been nitsky for you and me. 'Nothin' doin'! says he, and he meant it, too, but the last hundred did it. It's cost me two hundred pound from first to last, so it isn't likely I'd give it up without gettin' my wad." Von Bork smiled with some bitterness.
"All right, Red. I don't want blood spilled," he said, cheerfully. "I'll be a martyr and put up with you.... What do you say to a day off? Let's ride over to Slingerland's." The cowboy's red face slowly wrinkled into a smile. "Wal, I shore was wonderin' what in the hell made you rustle so lately. I reckon nothin' would suit me better. I've been wonderin', too, about our little girl."
"The van's burnt, an' we've both lost our property, to say nothin' of our prospects, mate," he said with a sardonic sneer, "but one comfort's left us, Billy's alive!" A little later the plowing engine with its consort was at work under the hot September sky.
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