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"I beg your pardon, Renata. Please will you mind looking for the mousehole?" "I tan't see the mousehole," put in Charlotte, "I only 'tend it." But Renata looked all the same. There was no mousehole and no golden penny. "It is all right," explained Aymer in answer to his sister-in-law's troubled look. "I know all about it. Don't worry your little head.
"Yer a brave gal, now, whoever ye ar!" said the man, with an oath. Eliza recognized the voice and face for a man who owned a farm not far from her old home. "O, Mr. Symmes! save me do save me do hide me!" said Elia. "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. "O, Mr.
Jane Wilson thought a moment. "Will and Margaret are married?" asked she. "Not exactly, but very near. The old woman has twice the spirit of the young one. Come, Mary, give a guess?" He covered his little boy's eyes with his hands for an instant, significantly, till the baby pushed them down, saying in his imperfect way "Tan't see." "There now! Johnnie can see. Do you guess, Mary?"
He soon became the monarch of this poor hearth, and he deported himself in royal fashion. "Oo tan't talk," he said patronizingly to her one day, after listening in futile seriousness to her unintelligible jargon. Forthwith he essayed to teach her to speak English, and, humoring his every freak, she sought to profit.
Tom spoke with a thick utterance, and with a bitter choking in his throat, but he spoke brave and strong. "Let's think on our marcies!" he added, tremulously, as if he was quite sure he needed to think on them very hard indeed. "Marcies!" said Aunt Chloe; "don't see no marcy in 't! 'tan't right! tan't right it should be so! Mas'r never ought ter left it so that ye could be took for his debts.
'But I'm not goin t'night, Rachael, nor yet t'morrow. 'Tan't easy overmuch t' know wheer t' turn, but a good heart will coom to me. Herein, too, the sense of even thinking unselfishly aided him. Before he had so much as closed Mr.
He slowly drew forth his rule and began to measure, while the little one sobbed, "I 'm so told I tan't walt any more. My foots are all tired out, and I want sumpin to eat;" and there he found himself just on the verge of making a fearful blunder. He got up from his knees and turning to the tiny maid, said kindly, "There, there! don't cry, dear!
Despite all our efforts, some of them might get past us; and then we should be assailed in the rear, and of course vanquished and destroyed. "If we only could get at the door?" said I, looking towards the slab, which could be seen where it lay outside. "'Tan't possible," answered Ben, "the filthy beasts are all around it they'd pull us to pieces if we only showed nose outside. Dash my buttons.
Despair seemed imminent when Dolly, who, though small, was as keen as the keenest of the diggers, came back after a special effort with no more than the merest handful of gutter-scrapings, saying with a most pathetic wail: "I tan't det no more!" Then it was that a great resolve took shape in the heart of Dave.
"Though the dogs might damage the gal, if they come on her unawars," said Haley. "That ar's a consideration," said Marks. "Our dogs tore a feller half to pieces, once, down in Mobile, 'fore we could get 'em off." "Well, ye see, for this sort that's to be sold for their looks, that ar won't answer, ye see," said Haley. "I do see," said Marks. "Besides, if she's got took in, 'tan't no go, neither.
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