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Slocomb's death, "Major Talbot's widow Major John Talbot of Pocomoke, suh," this impressively and with sudden gravity of tone, placing his stables, his cellar, and his servants at their disposal, and arranging for everybody to meet everybody else the following day in Baltimore, the major starting that night, and Jack and his friends the next day.
Slocomb havin' gone to Baltimo', I said to the judge: 'Yo' Honor, I am now about to delight yo' palate with the very best bottle of old madeira that ever passed yo' lips. A wine that will warm yo' heart, and unbutton the top button of yo' vest. It is part of a special importation presented to Mrs. Slocomb's father by the captain of one of his ships.
Slocomb's life" here the major assumed a reminiscent air, pinching his fat chin with his thumb and forefinger "we had, of co'se, a lot of niggers; but this man Anthony!
"That's been a good many years ago, colonel, but I can see him now just as plain as if he stood before me, with his white cotton gloves, white vest, and green coat with brass buttons, standin' behind Mrs. Slocomb's chair. I can see the old sidebo'd, suh, covered with George III. silver, heirlooms of a century," this with a trance-like movement of his hand across his eyes.
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