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Their mother, just a slip of a girl herself, 'm, had only time for a long look at her babbies before she begun to sink, and when she see, herself, 'twas the end, she whispered, 'Debby' I was right over her, 'm, leaving the babbies to anybody, for little they were to me then, beside the dear young mistress so she says, says she, 'Debby! and I says, very soft-like, 'Yes, Miss Helen, 'cause, mind you, I'd been her maid afore she was merrit at all, and I allays forgot when I wasn't thinkin', and give her the old name and I says, 'Yes, Miss Helen? And then she smiles up at me just as bright as on her wellest days, 'm, and says, 'Call 'em Faith and Hope, Debby; that's what they would be to me if and not rightly onderstandin' of her, I breaks in, 'Faith and Hope?
How a man of any sperrit 'n' ambition ken stan' it fur twenty years as you hev, beats my onderstandin'." He will always remember the pause that prefaced the reply, and how Top, Senior, patted the polished lever under his hand as he spoke: "She's a pretty respectable cretur, take Her all in all.
"I calc'late that I knows for certain it ain't got no place wotiver in my onderstandin'." "Hah!" exclaimed Bounce. "Come, then, I'll do my best for to explain it t'ye. Here's wot it is. D'ye see Mr Bertram, there?" "Yes, I does." "An' d'ye see yerself?" "Wall, I does," replied Waller, looking complacently down at his huge limbs.
"When they'd got fairly away out o' our neighbourhood I climbed down again, and the others follered suit; and Mike, here, and I made sail along the path that the niggers had gone, while the other three topped their booms for the boat, the onderstandin' bein' that they was to get her afloat and swung round all ready, and then wait till Mike and me j'ined 'em.
Us'll bring un up in the proper way, an' teach un to use his onderstandin' an' allus knuckle down 'fore his elders. To tell 'e truth, Phoebe, I've a notion I might train up a cheel better'n some men." "Yes, Will, I think so, tu. But 'tis food an' clothes an' li'l boots an' such-like comes first. A hunderd pounds be such a mort o' money." "'Twill set 'em up in a fair way."
Does that onderstandin' go? "'It goes! says Cherokee. Then he turns off for a brief powwow with Faro Nell. "'But thar's one thing you-all forgets, Cherokee, says Nell. 'If he breaks you, he's got to go on an' break me. I've a bundle of three thousand; he's got to get it all before ever the play is closed. Tell this yere Holliday party that.
There was a proper good onderstandin' between him and his rider: they looked as if they had growed together, and made one critter half hoss, half man with a touch of the devil. "Goodish was all up on eend by what he drank, and dashed in and out of the crowd arter a fashion, that was quite cautionary, callin' out, 'Here comes "the grave-digger."
I leave these matters to my law officers. "I larnt that little matter of law from brother Eldad, the lawyer, but I guess I was wrong there. I don't think I had ought to have given him that sly poke; but I didn't like his talkin' that way to me. Whenever a feller tries to pull the wool over your eyes, it's a sign he don't think high of your onderstandin'. It isn't complimental, that's a fact.
There was a proper good onderstandin' between him and his rider: they looked as if they had growed together, and made one critter half hoss, half man with a touch of the devil. "Goodish was all up on eend by what he drank, and dashed in and out of the crowd arter a fashion, that was quite cautionary, callin' out, 'Here comes "the grave-digger."
"Well, I mos' furgits de zack meanin'," said the old man, scratching his head; "hit's some kin' er writin', do, jes like Miss Diddie say; but, let erlone dat, hit's in de squshionary, an' yer ma kin fin' hit fur yer, an' 'splain de zack meanin' uv de word; but de Defemation uv Ondepen'ence, hit happened on de fuss Fourf uv July, an' hit happens ev'ry Fourf uv July sence den; an' dat's 'cordin 'ter my onderstandin' uv hit," said Uncle Rob, whipping up his horses.
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