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Updated: May 5, 2025
She is not dead not dead after all! The hideous dream is passing. 'Oh, ain't she dead, pore dear? ain't she? She's dead enough for one, said the woman; 'but 'ow can she be there on that mattress, when she's buried, an' the prayers read over her, like the darter of the most 'spectable mother as ever lived in Primrose Court! That's what the neighbours say o' me.
They 's 'spectable folks enough in a kinder plain way; but, as to gettin' up anything in style, they don't begin to have a notion on 't. Set Mas'r Lincon, now, alongside Mas'r Shelby! Good Lor! and Missis Lincon, can she kinder sweep it into a room like my missis, so kinder splendid, yer know!
"Sartin sure," answered Becky; "it is only ven vun is down in the vorld that vun goes to the Ticker-shop. Now, h-indeed," and she looked round very proudly, "I 'as a 'spectable stashion, and I vould n't go for to lower it, and let 'em say that Becky Carruthers does not know how to conduct herself. The curril will be safe enuff now; but p'r'aps you had best take it yourself, lad."
"Please, ma'am, will you tell me whether a man name' Ben Davis useter live in dis neighborhood?" "Useter live in de nex' house; wuz sent ter de penitenchy fer killin' a man." "Kin yer tell me w'at went wid Mis' Davis?" "Umph! I 's a 'spectable 'oman, I is, en don' mix wid dem kind er people.
Mike looked at his cap, and looked at the floor, and looked at the ceiling, and looked at the clerk, and even looked at me, before beginning to reply in a nervous manner, "We've dressed him up like " when my guardian blustered out, "What? You WILL, will you?" After some helpless casting about, Mike brightened and began again: "He is dressed like a 'spectable pieman. A sort of a pastry-cook."
"Could you-uns sure be back hyar by daybreak, Watt!" he asked, fixing the young fellow with a stern eye. "No 'spectable ghost roams around arter sun-up," cried Wyatt, fairly jovial at the prospect of liberation. "Ye mus' be heedful not ter be viewed," the senior admonished him. "I be goin' ter slip about keerful like a reg'lar, stiddy-goin' harnt, an' eavesdrop a bit.
I don't want to be ignorant. I didn't use to care, but I do now. I want to grow up 'spectable." "So do I, Dick. We will both help each other, and I am sure we can accomplish something. But I am beginning to feel sleepy." "So am I," said Dick. "Them hard words make my head ache. I wonder who made 'em all?" "That's more than I can tell. I suppose you've seen a dictionary." "That's another of 'em.
"I suppose she gets all the blame of the thing," the lady went on, with quiet exasperation. Dodge seemed thrown off his bearings. "Everybody in Craddock was a-talking about it, as was only to be expected," said the gravedigger. "Well, well, we're all sinners. Don't do to be too hard on folks. 'Pears sad like after keepin' 'spectable for all them years too sort o' waste." Mrs.
"And I think it's berry 'sultin' in you to ax a' spectable colored 'oman any such question. Do I understan' de natur' ob an oaf? You might 's well ax me if I knows I's got a mortal soul to be save'! Yes, I does unnerstan' de natur' ob an oaf. I knows how, if anybody takes a false one, which it won't be Catherine Mortimer, they'll go right straight down to de debbil and serbe 'em right!"
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