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He died about three years ago. Dis gent'man is the gran'son one o' my young masters. I was the fust pusson ever put him on a hoss." "Can he ride?" "Kin he ride! You wait an' see him," laughed the old man. "He ought to be able to ride! Ken a bud fly? Heah he now." He turned as the young owner, brown and tanned, and hardly more than a boy, came up through the crowd.
Neb seized him and pulled him from the aperture with a desperate agility which strained his aged limbs. "Fo' de Lawd's sake, now, Marse Frank," he cried, "don't yo' dare look t'rough dat stable winder!" Frank, now, was badly frightened. "Is there some one in there with Queen Bess?" he asked. "A young pusson to see you, suh," Neb admitted. "And you let that person have the key?"
"I guess he'd think I was a pretty changed pusson! Now, I want you should stay with me, Clementina, and if anybody else comes " Maddalena entered the room with a card which she gave to the girl. "Who is it?" Mrs. Lander demanded. "Miss Milray." "Of cou'se! Well, you may just send wo'd that you can't Or, no; you must! She'd have it all ova the place, by night, that I wouldn't let you see her.
"Not 'avin' any cake," said that lady, "thro' not being forewarned as to the time of arrival tho' it's not ofting I'm taken by surprise except as to a 'eadache, which, of course, is accidental to every pusson I ain't got nothin' but bread and butter, the baker and grocer both bein' all that could be desired, except in the way of worryin' for their money, which they thinks as 'ow I keeps the bank in the 'ouse, like Allading's cave, as I've 'eard tell in the Arabian Nights, me 'avin' gained it as a prize for English in my early girl'ood, bein' then considered a scholard an' industrus."
I've been well contented with enough all my life, though 't is few can say with truth that enough satisfies 'em." "Lezzard said money was nothin' to him neither, having plenty of his awn. 'T was my pusson, not my pocket, as he'd falled in love with." "Burnish it all! Theer 's a shameful speech! 'Your pusson'! Him!
"Good Lawd!" cried the spiked one in disgust, "ever', time a white pusson gits somp'n misplaced " She moved to one side to allow the girl to enter, and continued staring up the street, with the whites of her eyes accented against her dark face, after the way of angry negroes. Around the crescent the dogs were furious.
"I'm departin', sir," piped the cricket, with a sad shake of her head, as she opened the door; "knowin', as I do, as 'e's as innocent as an unborn babe, an' to think of me 'avin' told that 'orrid pusson who 'ad no regard for the truth all about 'im as is now in a cold cell, not as what the weather ain't warm, an' 'e won't want a fire as long as they allows 'im blankets."
Mother's guessed part an' she tawld faither I weer gwaine daft or else in love wi' some pusson else than Joe. An' faither was short an' sharp, an' took me out walkin', an' bid me bide at home an' give over trapsin' 'bout. An' 'e said as 'ow I was tokened to Joe Noy an' bound by God A'mighty to wait for en if 'twas a score years.
You are evidently the p'oper pusson, as I reco'nize this as my own chirography." The up-country boy stood in awed silence. He thought he had never heard such fine language before. "I ca'culate that you have nevah had no experience in hotel work," pursued Mr. Buckner somewhat more graciously. "I's nevah done nuffin' but wo'k on a farm; but evahbody 'lows I's right handy."
"I don't 'old with cockes feathers and fal-de-dals on 'umble folk myself, not but what I could afford 'em if I liked, being of saving 'abits and a receiver of good wages. But I'm a friendly pusson and not 'ard on a good-lookin' gal, not that you are what I call 'andsome."
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