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And Aleck rolled his eyes around impressively. "You were in a small boat attached to some steamer?" "Dat's it. Da had been usin' de small boat fo' surnt'ing, and left her overboard." "Were you cut adrift?" "I don't tink I was but I aint shuah nohow." "What boat was it?" "De Harrison, from Brooklyn, bound to Cuba." "Did you ship on her after you left Putnam Hall in such a hurry?
She's one o' dose million-heiresses and highly connected, sah, wid de old Mexican Gobbermen, I understand. And I reckon dey's bin big goin's on doun dar, foh de Mayer kem hisself fo' de Kernel. Looks like des might bin a proceshon, sah. Yo' don' know of a young lady bin hab a title, sah? I won't be shuah, his Honah de Mayer or de Kernel didn't say someting about a 'Donna'."
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan.
Just clearing the swing-shelf, he pulled his great figure up to its full height, and standing there like a second Goliath, he said quite softly in that lingo of his childhood that always came back to his tongue's tip in times of excitement: "Just as shuah as yo' bohn that priest will eat his dinner to-day in my cabin, sah; and if yo' going t' make any trouble, just say so now, and we'll get it ovah, and the place cleaned up again befoh our visitors arrive."
What yer s'pose dem fer, 'Liab? Dunno? I should tink not. House logs fer de church, 'Liab. Make it jes ez big ez yer wants. Dar 'tis. Only gib me some few shingles an' a flo', an' dar yer hev jes ez good a church ez de 'postles ebber hed ter preach in." "An' de school, Nimbus?" timidly. "Shuah 'nough. Why I nebber tink ob dat afo'? An' you de teacher! Now you is talkin', 'Liab, certain shuah!
Aun' Sheba had heard and recognized his voice, and she went through the throng like a puffing tug through driftwood. "Mister Buggone," she said, with the sternness of fate, "ef yer doan stop yer noise you'se 'lowance stop heah and now. Yer'll hab ter wuck shuah or starbe, fer if yer doan come wid me now yer neber come agin." Uncle Sheba went away with her, meek as a lamb.
I'm sure it was Snap." "And I'se shuah it were a ghostest," murmured Dinah, as she went out to the kitchen. "Mamma, who do you think it could have been?" asked Nan of her mother. "Why, Snap, to be sure, little daughter." "But with the door shut, and the window opening out on the water?" went on Nan. "Oh, dogs are very smart," said Mrs. Bobbsey. "Smarter than we think.
"Shut it off!" cried Mr. Bobbsey. "Here, I'll do it!" He started across the kitchen floor. "Look out, Massa Bobbsey!" yelled Dinah. "It'll cotch yo' shuah. It done cotched me!" and then as she saw the little rubber hose of Freddie's fire engine swing around, and the nozzle point at her, the fat cook ran into the dish-closet and shut the door. "How did it happen?" asked Mrs.
"Estralla won't tell," Sylvia declared confidently; "and I am glad she came to go home with me." "Shuah I'll do jes' what Missy wants me to," said the little darky. "Try to let Mrs. Carleton know that I received the letter, and that I hope to reach Washington safely," said Mr. Doane, as he bade Sylvia good-night. As the door closed behind them Estralla clasped Sylvia's hand.
Audible snickering was general, but this soon gave way to alarm as Aun' Sheba exclaimed aloud, "He's dun gwine an' got de popoplexy shuah." "Carry him out," said old Tobe, in a whisper which might have been heard in the street.
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