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Mars' David, he done went he own way, drinkin', gamblin' and cussin'; he lak a madman when he baby die. He seem skeered when he see Miss Pepeeta. She look at him wid her big black eyes full of wonder and s'prise, stretch out her li'l han's, and when he run away or struck her, she des go out to the li'l baby's grave, creeping along lak a shadder through the gyahden, soft lak and still.
"I'll have my wrapper an' my slippers, an' I'll set in the big chair out in the settin'-room. That's Parson Gerry's voice, an' I want ter see him." "But, Aunt Abby " began Ella, feverishly. "Well, I declare, if there ain't another sleigh drivin' in," cried the old woman excitedly, sitting up in bed and peering through the little window. "Must be they're givin' us a s'prise party.
It was getting to be tolerable noisy down here for your mammy, so nigh to the plant. And we allowed to s'prise you. We've been buildin' us a new house up on the knoll just this side o' Major Dabney's." It was the cruelest of the changes the one hardest to bear; and it drove the boy back into the dumb reticence which was a part of his birthright.
'Stid o' that she wasn't thar, an' Mandy Ann come clatterin' down de stars, an' I hearn a baby cry. In my s'prise I said, "What's dat ar? Has ole Miss got a baby?" "'Mandy Ann laughed till she cried, den cried without laughin', an' tole me wid her face to de wall, an' I was so shamed I could of hid in de san', an' Mandy Ann, they tole me, did run inter de woods at fust to hide herself.
"How many are on board the 'White Shield?" "I feared it was she when I laid my eyes on her," said Captain Peters. "Five in the crew, my father, and one passenger." "Dis a s'prise," said a new-comer, looking at Wort. It was Juggie. "It is a surprise," was Wort's reply. "Catch me going again." "You'd rather be de keeper ob de great seal." "Yes, indeed!"
You just ought to see the dessert I'm making but that's a s'prise." "Remember! Should say I did! See what I've got for somebody!" He opened a parcel and displayed a pair of red-worsted bed-slippers, a creation of one of the greatest red-worsted artists in the whole land. Yes, and he could afford them, too. Was he not making thirty-two dollars a week he who had been poor!
Jim and Lilas were talking loudly when a key grated in the lock, the door of the little apartment opened and clicked shut again. Another instant and Jarvis Hammon paused on the threshold, glowering. Lilas's wine-glass shattered upon the floor. "Jarvis! You frightened me," she cried. "Evening, Mr. Hammon." Bob lurched to his feet, upsetting his chair. "This IS a s'prise."
If yer wanted his head bruck it wouldn't s'prise me; but ter want his arm bruck jee!" "I don't care if he gets a rap on the head at the same time, but I don't want him killed. I want his right arm broken, and that is the job I am ready to pay for."
I know that somebody was over there in the fort to find out how the land lies and what sort o' shape them red-coats is in, an' 'twouldn't s'prise me if this was the chap." They all followed 'Siah down to the cove even Enoch and met the stranger as he came ashore. The latter seemed in nowise troubled by seeing so many armed men and after mooring his canoe came at once to the group of Americans.
His jaws worked on and he seemed able to get nutriment out of his ruminations long after a cow would have gone back to grass hungrily. "Aint sayin' I never am s'prised, becuz am, but do say that that wouldn't s'prise me, an' no more would it." Mr.
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