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Updated: June 11, 2025
But I ken nae mair than this: that for endless ages I gaed followin' her through the heavenly halls, aye kennin as sure's gospel that she was ahint the neist door, and aye openin' that door upon an empty glory, to be equally certain that she was ahint the neist.
That boy would keep his word; he was ready to shoot if crossed; and the way in which he had killed the brute of a dog proved his skill with the gun he was fondling now. "Oh! all right, bub, I'll clear out, if yuh sez so; but if I ever get a chanct tuh even up this hyer score I'm gwine tuh do hit, sure's yer born!"
"The point, if you'll have it straight," he said, "is jest this I want the whole place every inch of it and I'll die or git it, as sure's my name's my own. Thar's still that old frame house and the piece of land tacked to it, whar the overseers used to live, cutting straight into the heart of my tobacco fields in clear view of the Hall, too right in the middle of my land, I tell you!"
He scrooch down dis a way, so he kin look in de suller." said Julius, bending forward until his back was nearly on a level with the gunwales of the boat, "an' I whack him behine de ear, an' he drap so quick he don't know what hit him. Dat's de troof, sure's you born."
"What in thunder was that?" he yelled, highly excited. "A jack-rabbit," growled Mack. "And going some. Something scare't that critter, sure's you're bawn!" "Didn't you ever see a jack before, Pratt?" asked Frances, her tone a little queer, he thought. "Not so close to," admitted the young fellow, as he scrambled to his feet.
But I put ye up to it, 'n' I shouldn't never got over it if the Colonel had caught ye, on account of them stripes on yer arm. He'd ha' snatched 'em baldheaded, sure's yer born. You're my pard, 'n' I'm jest as proud of 'em as you be yerself. I'm only a privit, 'n' they can't rejuce me any lower!
'Thank you, said Ericson, as Robert went towards his instrument; and, turning, would have walked from the house without any additional protection. 'Whaur are ye gaein' that gait, Mr. Ericson? Tak yer plaid, or ye'll be laid up again, as sure's ye live. 'I'm warm enough, returned Ericson. 'That's naething. The cauld 's jist lyin' i' the street like a verra deevil to get a grup o' ye.
I will go alone." "You'll be murdered, miss as sure's you're alive!" Hester took the light from her, and went towards the coal-cellar. The old woman sank on a chair. I have already alluded to the subterranean portion of the house, which extended under the great room. A long vault, corresponding to the gallery above, led to these cellars.
She put a spell on me, sure's you're a foot high. Lord, wouldn't I like to be able to manage her. I'd set her up with a faro-bank or a sweat-board, and she'd win all the money in the army in a month." "Yes, she's a terror," accorded Rosenbaum. "She made up her mind to marry me when I first come down here.
"It's that red-headed boy of Joe Crofton's," chuckled Aunt Jane. "Nobody'd ever think he was born in Kentucky; now, would they? Old Man Bob Crawford used to say that every country boy in this state was a sort o' half-brother to a horse. But that boy yonder ain't no kin to the filly he's tryin' to ride. There's good blood in that filly as sure's you're born.
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