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We waited some time but no supper arrived. The Colonel, becoming impatient, was on the point of going to look for it, when the door burst open and Solomon appeared empty-handed, every hair on his woolly head pointing a different direction. "De ha'nt, Marse Cunnel, de ha'nt! He's sperrited off de chicken. Right outen de oven from under Nancy's eyes."
Hello, Dot, ready?" The two girls started off down the path and Mrs. Rose watched them go with a sad heart. She knew how disappointed they were, after all their trouble to make the cake, and she couldn't imagine what had become of it. "I can't believe any of the girls came and took it," she said to Maria. "No, ma'am, dat dey didn't! dat cake was sperrited away by ghos'es. Dat's what it was!"
"That ere young man wants to ride the new horse, and it is jist the one he mus'n't ride." "I will speak to Cousin Bill myself," she said. "He seems a sperrited young feller, and if he wants to break his neck it's most a pity he shouldn't." "I think," she said when Jesse had retired, "that Charles must be saving up that beast to kill himself with. He will not pull a chaise yet."
Has anything happened, for God's sake? 'She's gone. 'Where to? 'That's more than earthly man can tell! I never see such a thing! 'Twas a stroke o' the black art as if she were sperrited away. When we got to the games I said mind, you told me to! I said, "Jim Hayward thinks o' going off to London with that widow woman" mind you told me to! She showed no wonderment, though a' seemed very low.
But when she took up the pan of beaten biscuit she was puzzled to find that several were missing. "It beats my time," she said, aloud. "The parrot couldn't have reached them, an' Lloyd an' the dog have been in the pa'lah all mawnin'. Somethin' has jus' natch'ly done sperrited 'em away."
Jope. "Turned you out?" asked Nandy. Mr. Jope glanced back at the roof of Merry-Garden, which from the quay could be seen just overtopping the laylocks. "She's a sperrited woman," he said; and after that there was a pause until Nandy asked him who he thought he was staring at. "I dunno," said Mr. Jope. "You puts me in mind of a boy I knew, one time.
An' he said first, I was a sperrited chap, but I knowed that afore, but then he outs wi' the ten suvreigns, an' that war summat new. Here they are, all but one!" Here Bob emptied the canvas bag on the table.
It ain't good manners to brag of your own relations, but I'm always forgetting and doing it. Gil was a great pet of mine. He was so bright and nice-mannered everybody liked him. Him and Anne were a fine-looking couple, Nora May. Not but what they had their shortcomings. Anne's nose was a mite too long and Gil had a crooked mouth. Besides, they was both pretty proud and sperrited and high-strung.
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