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There was a mingling of excitement and a certain sense of bereavement in her mind; she would have liked to gaze at that embodiment of overdressed depravity for just a little longer. "I 'spect she's going away in a kerridge to marry the rich lord," hazarded Bert. "She's up to no good," said Emmeline vaguely. Inside the shop the purchase of the doll had been decided on.
"I 'spect I won't have to pay no rent for my next home," said Grannie softly, under her breath, as she turned away from the door. "Oh, Lord, to think that you're gettin' a mansion in the sky ready for an old body like me, and no rent to pay neither! Dear Lord, to think it is getting ready for me now! I am about as happy an old woman as walks that I am."
"While I'm about it, I'll see what the 'clod-hopper' has to say, and then I shall be free to give my whole attention to the 'gentleman." "Oh, Kate, how can you!" cried Nancy Ellen. "Way I'm made, I 'spect," said Kate. "Anyway, that's the way this is going to be done."
There's quite enough innocent fun in the world to keep you busy all day, and every day." "I 'spect there is; and truly, Grandma, after this, when I want to cut up jinks, I'll wait until I can think it out, whether they're good jinks or bad jinks! Will that do?"
"That's fer Mr. Rolfe to say. I only knows as I'd tackle th' Great High Hadmiral o' H Beg pardon, lady, but you knows what I means, I 'spect I'd tackle him if 'twas to get Cap'n Barry offen a lee shore." The girl relapsed into thoughtful silence, and the party plunged into a belt of jungle so thick that single file was forced upon them.
Hi, 'oman!" he suddenly cried, turning the rays of the lantern in all directions, though the kitchen was quite light enough without them. "What de matter now, ole man?" asked Dinah. "Where Nora? I lef' her here an' she aint here now! where she gone?" "Hi, ole man, what you ax me for? how you 'spect I know?" "Well, I 'clare ef dat don't beat eberyting!"
"Why, it's Flidda Ringgan!" said Miss Gall, after a dubious look or two at her visitor. "How do you do? I didn't 'spect to see you. How much you have growed!" She looked really pleased, and gave Fleda's hand a very strong grasp as she shook it.
A matronly woman, belonging to the same race, followed close in his rear. "You're smart dis mornin', missis," she said, speaking from the middle of the stairway. "I didn't 'spect you'd git ahead o' me, and de sun hardly showin' his face 'bove de hill-tops yit." "I woke early, Phillis, as I always do when something's going to happen that I expect.
Your wishes shall be carried out. Den she says, 'I'se'll hab more supper pervided, an' we'll 'spect you wid your ossifers; for she wanted ter make fren's wid him, seein' we was all in his po'er. He says, 'No, madam, I'se take my supper wid my men. I could not be an unwelcome gues' in any house, What I asks for my ossifers, I asks as a favor; I doesn't deman' it. Den he bows an' goes away.
By no means, brev'ren; you was all brung up by women, an' you've got ter lib wid' em, an ef anythin' in dis yer worl' is ketchin', my dear brev'ren, it's habin debbils, an' from wot I've seen ob some ob de men ob dis worl' I 'spect dey is persest ob 'bout all de debbils dey got room fur.
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