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Tulrumble only ejaculated 'Lor-a-mussy! once again, as if a Mayor were a mere ordinary Christian, at which Mr. Tulrumble frowned gloomily. 'What a pity 'tan't in London, ain't it? said Mrs. Tulrumble, after a short pause; 'what a pity 'tan't in London, where you might have had a show. 'I MIGHT have a show in Mudfog, if I thought proper, I apprehend, said Mr. Tulrumble mysteriously.
This idea occurred to me as I stood gazing at it, and Ben had a similar fancy. "Dang it, Will'm!" said he, stepping nearer to it, "it be a door, I believe," and then, leaning forward, and striking it with his fist, he exclaimed: "Shiver my timbers, if 'tan't a door! Listen, lad! d'ye hear that? it sounds as hollow as a empty cask!"
Towards night the men were heard coming in to supper. Just as they entered the door of the room where Nan and Gerty were, one of them stumbled over the kitten, which had slyly come in with them. "Cracky! what's this 'ere?" said the man whom they called Jemmy; "a cat, I vow! Why, Nan, I thought you hated cats!" "Well, 'tan't none o' mine; drive it out," said Nan.
She's the faithfullest of creeturs. 'Tan't to be expected, of course, at her time of life, and being lone and lorn, as the good old Mawther is to be knocked about aboardship, and in the woods and wilds of a new and fur-away country. So that's what I'm a-going to do with her. He forgot nobody. He thought of everybody's claims and strivings, but his own.
"For de Lawd's sake, 'tan't no use," she said, gathering up the pieces and taking them to the kitchen, where Sonsie laughed till the tears ran at Mandy Ann's attempt "to be gran'," and its result.
'Tan't, you know, as if it was white folks, that's brought up in the way of 'spectin' to keep their children and wives, and all that. Niggers, you know, that's fetched up properly, ha'n't no kind of 'spectations of no kind; so all these things comes easier." "I'm afraid mine are not properly brought up, then," said Mr. Shelby. "S'pose not; you Kentucky folks spile your niggers.
"Dragged 'em behind the bushes. 'Tan't legal to lift the bodies." "Go on with your work, Hannibal, and don't appear at all fluttered or discomposed. Look as if nothing had happened. If any one calls, I am not at home." An outcry was raised about the death of the dragon. The papa, furious at the sight of the favourite's tears, roamed and raged about the town in search of witnesses.
Against such a sight, and against such determination as that of the calmly desperate man who was already accustomed to lead half the people present, I might as hopefully have entreated the wind. 'Mas'r Davy, he said, cheerily grasping me by both hands, 'if my time is come, 'tis come. If 'tan't, I'll bide it. Lord above bless you, and bless all! Mates, make me ready! I'm a-going off!
Jones went about her morning's work with a thankful heart. The children had had nothing to eat as yet, and now that their brother's moanings had ceased, they realized that they were hungry. "Tan't I have my supper?" sobbed Bub, clinging to his mother's dress as she walked. "'Tisn't supper; it's breakfast!" answered Bob, giving the child a push, which helped him cry the louder.
"Oh, as for that, I was minded to have sunk it, with its mess of sweet-meats and potsherds; but a thought took me, dame, to be 'conomical for once: and I was half sorry too that I'd flung away the jars, for I began to fancy your little uns might ha' liked the stuff; so I dipped the clout like any washerwoman, rinshed, and squeezed, and washed the mess away, and have worn it round my waist ever since; here, dame, I haven't been this way for a while afore to-night; but I meant to ask you if you'd like to have it; may be 'tan't the fashion though."
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