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"Five thousand a year, as that nice young man Mr. Ford have told us is right. Lor'! my lovely queen, you'll drive in your chariot and forget Debby." "You foolish old thing," said the girl, fondly, "you held to me in my troubles and you shall share in my joy." "Allays purvidin' I don't 'ave to leave the laundry in charge of Bart an' Mrs.
Then he turned and looked at Douglass with preternatural gravity: "I'm shore honahed, Miss Grace, with yuah commission! Yuh leave it to me! I'll see he gits he's milk regulah an' goes to hes leetle baid at seven every night. On yuah return I'll hand him oveh to you all wropped up in cotton bats, tied with pink ribbon like thet about yuah naick, thet is, purvidin' I kin rustle thu ribbon."
"Ef you sink in it we'll pull you out, purvidin' you don't go in it over your neck." Henry went ahead, his wary eye examining the ground which had already grown alarmingly soft save for those trained for such marchings.
He brought himself back with an effort, when he saw Jarvis looking at him and smiling. "'Tain't so bad down here on a spring night, is it, Harry?" he said. "Always purvidin', as I said, that it don't rain." "Where did you get that song, Sam?" asked Harry they had already fallen into the easy habit of calling one another by their first names.
"They've probably set their lines all the way around our hollow, and they're sure now they'll hold us fast," said Henry, with grim irony. "That's 'bout it, I take it," said Shif'less Sol, "an' it 'pears to me that this is the time for us to laugh, purvidin' it won't be in any way breakin' uv our agreement to keep the day till its very last minute." He looked questioningly at Paul.
"Ole Satan will be purvidin' fur them. I'll take these along to cook fur ye." She gathered up the dead chickens and stalked back to the house. "Ef we're gwine t' shoot they'uns le's take they'uns over thar on the knoll, whar they'uns won't spile nothin'," said one evil-looking man, who had just ransacked Si's pockets and appropriated everything in them.
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