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'Tan't that you care one bit more, or have a bit more feelin' it's clean, sheer, dog meanness, wanting to cheat the devil and save your own skin; don't I see through it? And your 'gettin' religion, as you call it, arter all, is too p'isin mean for any crittur; run up a bill with the devil all your life, and then sneak out when pay time comes! Bob!"
"Oh, Mr Symmes! save me do save me do hide me!" said Eliza. "Why, what's this?" said the man. "Why, if 'tan't Shelby's gal!" "My child! this boy he'd sold him! There is his mas'r," said she, pointing to the Kentucky shore. "Oh, Mr Symmes, you've got a little boy." "So I have," said the man, as he roughly, but kindly, drew her up the steep bank. "Besides, you're a right brave gal.
"What are you doing there, you limb? You've been stealing something, I'll be bound," said the imperious little Rosa, who had been sent to call her, seizing her, at the same time, roughly by the arm. "You go 'long, Miss Rosa!" said Topsy, pulling from her; "'tan't none o' your business!"
But when the cook came down the flowers were still in her hand, and as she threw them on the table, the kind-hearted woman gave vent to her feelings. "Well! folks do say that first-rate cooks and nurses are allers as cross as bears! 'Tan't for me to say whether it's so 'bout cooks, but 'bout nurses there an't no sort o'doubt!
Before we had advanced a hundred paces, I saw Ben suddenly untie the cord by which the bird was fastened, and, lifting it over his shoulders, hold the body up nearer his nose then, uttering a loud exclamation, he pitched the game as far from him as he could, at the same time crying out: "Turkey, i'deed dang it, Will, 'tan't no turkey. Shiver my timbers if 'tan't a stinking vulture!"
You look round, neighbour, as if you thought 'twan't much to share with any one; and 'tan't much there is here, to be sure; but it's a home, yes, a home; and that's a great thing to her that never had one. I've got my hands yet, and a stout heart, and a willin' mind. With God's help, I'll be a father to the child; and the time may come when she'll be God's embodied blessin' to me." Mr.
They're a long way off, and in this calm sea they won't be inclined to stir, not as long as the rum-cask holds out, I warrant; and when that's empty, they'll not feel much like movin' anywhere. 'Tan't for them we need have any fear now." "O Ben! I'm so hungry; I could eat anything." "I know it, my poor lad; so could I."
Her adoration of him was almost on a level with David's. Sandy took a minute to think whether he should leave his father. Then he climbed her knee, and patronised her on the subject of buffaloes and giraffes 'I tan't 'splain everything to you, Auntie Dora; you'll now when you're older' till Lucy and supper came together.
"I tan't find it; naughty mousie taken my booful golden penny," sobbed Charlotte in her mother's arms. Renata could make nothing of her grief and persisted in thinking that she was hurt, and cuddling her. Aymer, listening attentively, said suddenly to Renata in his imperious way: "Give Charlotte to me, Renata, and take baby away." Renata obeyed meekly.
A movement from Jem caused Mrs. Hayden to notice his extra dish of sauce and huge piece of frosted cake. "No, Jem, dear, you mustn't eat any more to-night, and you know mamma don't want you to have any cake." "O-o-o-h, peaze, tan't I have some more?" "Not any more to-day. You know you had to be sick all night, not long ago, and mamma had to give you some medicine.
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