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"I'm burned so bad nobody will buy me, but I stole her pass to help a slave off that I fell in love with." Judge Custis left Clayton's side, and waited till the hour in the pillory was done, and, after a fierce contest, saw Sorden come off victorious at the sale, though it took every dollar the Judge could raise in Georgetown on his private credit.
And that ain't the same woman! where did you get this pass?" "Go on, Sorden!" coughed the other man, "I'm bleeding. Let me lie down." His eyes had lost their wanton fire, and were hollow and glazing. The driver caught him in his arms, and uttered the kind words, "I love him as I never loved A male!" "Give me back the passes!" exclaimed the mulatto man, as the wagon started south.
"Derrick's gwyn home, sho'. See me, see me!" Van Dorn put his finger at his throat, where blood was all the while trickling, and, with a gentle cough, extorted the sounds: "Leave me under a bush to die." "No," cried Sorden, raising Van Dorn also upon his back; "I love him as I never loved A male."
It is dainty, Sorden!" "Now ef we was a going t'other way, Van Dorn," the driver said, "we could give them a lift. Boy, what are you out fur? Where's your passes?" "Yer they is. It's my wife an' me, gwyn to nurse a lady in Delaware." "Let me see!" He puffed his cigar upon the paper, and exclaimed, "Prissy Hudson? why, my skin! that's my wife's nurse.
He's set de jail afire," the negro exclaimed. "See me, O see me!" The conflagration gave a vapory red light to a secluded dwelling they now approached, upon a bowery lawn, and Sorden saw a woman of a severe aspect looking out of a window at the fire. "What is the meaning of this trespass so late at night?" she called. "Are you robbers? My aged husband is asleep."
"Where is Van Dorn?" Sorden asked; "I love him as I never loved A male." "He sends me to Camden of an errand," Levin answered; "is it far?" "About a mile. Three miles, then, to Dover. My skin! how fresh your critter is; ain't it Dirck Molleston's? I thought so. Then he'll be wantin' to turn in at Cooper's Corners." "Does Derrick live there?" "Yes.
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