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"What would I do what should I have done in all these years, Doc if it hadn't been for you!" smiled Tillie, with an affectionate pressure of his rough hand; and the doctor's face shone with pleasure to hear her. "You have been a good friend to me, Doc." "Och, that's all right, Tillie. As I sayed, wirtue has its reward even in this here life.
D'yeh think it could be true?" she cried. "Accourse it's true! Didn't yeh hear whut he sayed? Would he dast swear to it if it wasn't true?" Tremulously the younger woman moved forward, clutching her shawl about her. "Could yeh sell me half a bottle to try it, sir?" she asked. The vender shook his head. "Impossible, my dear madam. Contrary to my fixed professional rule.
I sayed afore, an' I say so still, thet I'd ruther she war dead that in the arms o' thet ere stinkin' Mormon. Poor Marian! she's hed but a short life, o' 't, an' not a very merry one eyether." "What! Marian? Is it of her you are speaking?" "Why, sartin, capt'n. Who else shed it be?" "Marian dead?" "Yes poor girl, she never lived to see that Salt Lake city whar the cussed varmint war takin' her.
"And do you say," demanded Absalom, indignantly, "that Teacher he says it's the same to him as prayin' this here musin'?" "So much as I know, that's what he sayed." "Well," declared Absalom, "that there ain't in the Bible! He'd better watch out! If he ain't a Bible Christian, pop and Jake Getz and the other directors'll soon put him off William Penn!"
"Och, I just mean, SAY NOT? Can't you mebbe talk English wery good? We had such a foreigners at this HOtel a'ready. We had oncet one, he was from Phil'delphy and he didn't know what we meant right when we sayed, 'The butter's all any more. He'd ast like you, 'All what? Yes, he was that dumm! Och, well," she added consolingly, "people can't help fur their dispositions, that way!"
This event took place before Islamism became the prevailing religion; but which form of idolatry, the Sulus pretend, is not now known. It is, however, believed the people on the coasts were Buddhists, while those of the interior were Pagans. The first sultan of Sulu was Kamaludin, and during his reign one Sayed Alli, a merchant, arrived at Sulu from Mecca.
And just then your pop up and sayed if Teacher wanted to keep comp'ny he must pick out 'Manda or Rebecca and I seen Teacher wanted to laugh, but his manners wouldn't leave him. He certainly has, now, a lot of manners, ain't, Tillie?" Tillie's head was bent over her sewing and she did not answer. The doctor yawned, stretched himself, and guessed he would step into the bar-room.
Here one day when he was first took sick, before he got so deef yet, I went to see him, and the Evangelical preacher was there, readin' to him that there piece of Scripture where, you know, them that worked a short time was paid the same as them that worked all day. The preacher he sayed he thought that par'ble might fetch him 'round oncet to a death-bed conwersion.
First they was soup and nothin' else settin' on the table, and then a colored young lady come in with such a silver pan and such a flat, wide knife, and she scraped the crumbs off between every one of them three courses. I felt awful funny. I tell you they was tony. I sayed to the missus, 'I hadn't ought to of came here.
"I see I wouldn't be doin' right to oppose you in this here, Tillie. Well, I'm glad, fur all, that I ain't whippin' you. It goes ag'in' me to hit you since you was sick that time. You're gettin' full big, too, to be punished that there way, fur all I always sayed still I'd never leave a child of mine get ahead of me, no matter how big they was, so long as they lived off of me.
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