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"We are out of the main stream, that's sartin," Hiram said, "though where we are is more nor I can tell till we get daylight." Frank took the lantern and climbed up the bough which served as a lookout. It was pitch dark outside, and the surface of the water was no longer broken by white heads. "Yes, we are certainly out of the main river, Hiram, and in behind some big islands.
Whatever doubts may have been engendered as to the nature of the island, there could be no longer any about the character of its inhabitants. "Dey am birds!" suggested the Coromantee; "nuffin more and nuffin less dan birds!" "You're right, Snowy," assented the sailor. "They be birds; and all the better they be so. Yes; they're birds, for sartin. I can tell the cut o' some o' their jibs.
Fresh Adventures J. J. Rousseau I set Up A Business Castel Bajac A Lawsuit is Commenced Against Me M. de Sartin Mdlle. X. C. V. had now been in the convent for a month, and her affair had ceased to be a common topic of conversation. I thought I should hear no more of it, but I was mistaken.
I don't know why I hain't killed thet spyin' skunk long ago, 'ceptin' I never had a shore an' sartin reason fer doin 'it." Isom started to speak then and stopped. He would learn more first; and he let Steve go on home unwarned. The two kept silence after Marcum had gone. Isom turned away from old Gabe, and stretched himself out on the platform. He looked troubled. The miller, too, was worried.
"Well, I'm goin', ain't I? I was only just sayin' " "Say it when you come back. And if Mr. Carver asks you why I sent that envelope to him be sure and give him the message I gave you. Do you remember it?" "Sartin. That what you done wan't wuth so much." "Not exactly. That what I saved wasn't worth it." "All right. I'll remember. But what did you save, Ros?
"It was touch and go, sir, that's sartin," replied Bob; "for if the old gentleman had not been satisfied, he is so obstinate that the match would have been broken off at the church door. Well, sir, I always said that you were the best to get out of a scrape that I ever knew when you were a middy, and you don't appear to have lost the talent; it was well managed."
Her hair had a wire friz on it, and her dress had Joseph's coat in Scriptur' lookin' like a mournin' rig. She'd have been real handsome to a body that was color blind. "'My, Effie! says I, 'you sartin do look fine to-night. "'Yup, she says, contented, 'I guess likely I do. Hope so, 'cause I'm wearin' all I've got. Say, Mr. Wingate, says she, excited as a cat in a fit, 'did you see him?
"Yes, massa, he all w'at 'em got now, but git more at Massa Whaley plantation win 'em git da." "Gih-e-wh-ew! Massa, I trow 'im o'board, Massa Whaley scratch 'em back, sartin. He tink 'em fust-rate.
"Sartin. DO you give me one? I ask you to keep these books of mine. You could keep 'em A Number One. You're smart enough to do it. But you won't. You let 'em go to thunder and waste your time makin' up fool poetry and such stuff." "But I like writing, and I don't like keeping books."
She believes the Powers above order everything. If that's so, then ain't it sacrilegious to be all the time flyin' in the face of them Powers by rakin' and rakin' and dustin' and dustin'? That's the question." "But, according to that reasoning," I observed, "we should neither rake nor dust. Wouldn't that make our surroundings rather uncomfortable, after a while?" "Sartin.
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