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The major's red head and lean little legs moved unsteadily over the square. "Sam Fetridge hes hed enough a'ready," said the squire. "He'll follow the jedge, and that hot foot, ef he don't pull up. D'ye think Dave Cabarreux will come in for all the Scroope proputty, doc?" "I don't know. I don't know," pulling his beard meditatively. "It'll be left in a lump: that much the jedge told me himself.
But Frank observed that Mis' Molly, when pressed as to the date of Rena's return, grew more and more indefinite; and finally the mother, in a burst of confidential friendship, told Frank of all her hopes with reference to the stranger from down the country. "Yas, Frank," she concluded, "it'll be her own fault ef she don't become a lady of proputty, fer Mr.
Egremont out for the day, Alice, whose free forenoons enabled her to take a share in church and parish affairs, was there, as well as the curate and his wife. These good people were in great commotion about a wedding about to take place between a young farmer and his delicate first cousin, the only survivor of a consumptive family. "Proputty, proputty," quoted the Canon.
"Have you read what's written above the heading of it?" he asked. "No; what is it, J'rome?" Ozias put on his spectacles; Jerome pointed to a crabbed line above the heading of the mortgage deed. "I giv as present the forth part of my proputty, this morgidge to Ozier Lamm. "Simon Basset." "He's took crazy!" cried Ozias, staring wildly at it.
"It would go dead ag'in' your chances down at Calhoun's, major, if Dave gets that proputty," he said gravely. "Old Tony Calhoun is a full-blood Yankee. He'll never give his daughter to a man with lean pockets." The major pulled himself up, half sobered as if by a dash of cold water. "And what has Cabarreux to make him fit for her?" he demanded shrilly. "Neither money nor brains.
He wuz 'rested las' week fer shootin' a w'ite man, an' wuz lynch' de same night. Dey wa'n't none of 'em no 'count after deir pappy went ter de penitenchy." "What went wid de proputty?" "Hit wuz sol' fer de mortgage, er de taxes, er de lawyer, er sump'n, I don' know w'at. A w'ite man got it." The man with the bundle went on until he came to a creek that crossed the road.
I shall will my proputty away from her. I've made up my mind, Jake: an' now le's talk about the Speak. Our plans was never better laid. Celebrate, tell Jake how we make our money a-goin', and you, Surrager, denote to him your machine f'r gittin' out the gold." I was too absorbed in thinking about Rowena to take in what Surajah and Celebrate said.
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