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"Bimeby, I heard Big Mose crawling soft-like out de bed. He was trying to make no noise, so he wouldn't wake me, finking I was asleep. He stepped like a cat on de floor, and I listened to see what he was going to do. I heerd him move around and den all was still. 'What you doing, Mose? I axed.
We understand each other right well. He knows what I'm saying now; listen to him whinny, soft-like, at me." Possibly Bob, knowing considerable about horses himself, may have had a strong suspicion that the animal understood the touch of his young master's hand much more readily than he did spoken words; but this was a subject which he never debated with Frank.
I suppose some good Christian folk would say she wor a bad 'un but I'll warrant she worn't bad at heart, but only just soft-like and she an orphan, with no one to look after her, or say she done ill or well.
He wouldn't believe it at first, though the cook told 'im, Bill Hicks told him, and Walter Jones 'ad a grandfather that went off in just the same way. "I'm not going to die," says Thomas "How can I die and leave all that money?" "It'll be good for your relations, Thomas," says Walter Jones. "I ain't got any," says the old man. "Well, your friends, then, Thomas," says Walter, soft-like.
So that was to be her pay for giving him her last cent and combing his hair, the towhead, out there under the shed in the afternoon, as kind and soft-like as a mother.
The wind was blowing soft-like from the southeast, and he stood there straining his ears trying to hear the sounds I told him of; but at last he gave it up, and we went back to camp, and he took his lantern and looked in his saddle-bags, and I shook for fear; but he seemed to find everything all right, and in the next ten minutes he was asleep, and Gower came and whispered to me, and I went with him, and he gave me five hundred dollars, in twenties.
So he got up kinder quietly, and put some of his clothes on, and all the while they were saying very soft-like awful things about the church, and Father LeRoy wasn't saying anything, but all of a sudden he turns the key easily in the door, locking it on the inside, you see, and slips the key in his pocket.
Their mother, just a slip of a girl herself, 'm, had only time for a long look at her babbies before she begun to sink, and when she see, herself, 'twas the end, she whispered, 'Debby' I was right over her, 'm, leaving the babbies to anybody, for little they were to me then, beside the dear young mistress so she says, says she, 'Debby! and I says, very soft-like, 'Yes, Miss Helen, 'cause, mind you, I'd been her maid afore she was merrit at all, and I allays forgot when I wasn't thinkin', and give her the old name and I says, 'Yes, Miss Helen? And then she smiles up at me just as bright as on her wellest days, 'm, and says, 'Call 'em Faith and Hope, Debby; that's what they would be to me if and not rightly onderstandin' of her, I breaks in, 'Faith and Hope?
The of man looked at her a good long while, but she never blinked a winker; an' he finally turned away an' said in a soft-like voice, "I know, child, I ain't been able to fill the part full measure but it ain't 'cause I haven't tried. I reckon you'll have to go, honey; but it'll sure be lonesome while you're away; an' when you do come back you'll never be my little kid any more."
'Tis like as if the Angel o' Death reached out an' touched me just touched me wi' 'is finger, soft-like, as much as to say: ''Ere be a poor, old, wore-out creeter as I shall be wantin' soon. Well, I be ready; 'tis only the young or the fule as fears to die. Threescore years an' ten, says the Bible, an' I be years an' years older than that. Oh! I shan't be afeared to answer when I'm called, Peter.
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