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But Lund forbade it. "You'll work reg'lar shifts when you git started," he said. "An' you won't start till ter-morrer. We've got to stand by the ship ter-night until we find out by mornin' how snug we're goin' to be berthed." All night long they lay in a pandemonium of noise.
We kin slip the coffin-box under the church-house 'fore he gits in sight, he'll be feared ter follow too close, an' leave it thar till the other boys kin wagon it ter the cross-roads' store ter-morrer night." The horses, hitherto held to the sober gait of funeral travel, were now put to a speedy trot, unmindful of whatever impression of flight the pace might give to the revenue-raider in pursuit.
After school Plato met an anxious eyed young man in the woods a short distance from the schoolhouse. "Well, Plato, what news?" "I's gwine ter see her home ter-morrer, Mars Geo'ge." "To-morrow!" replied Tryon; "how very fortunate! I wanted you to go to town to-morrow to take an important message for me. I'm sorry, Plato you might have earned another dollar."
He's a bloody fox, is Carlsen." "When's this coming off?" asked Rainey. "Quick! They're goin' to sight land ter-morrer, they say. I heard that this mornin'. I hid in my bunk. It heads ag'inst the wall of the hunters' mess an', if it's quiet, you can hear what they say. "They ain't goin' in to Bering Strait through Unimak Pass. They're goin' in through Amukat or Seguam Pass.
"Ef it's all be'n an' done reco'nized an' 'cided dat I's got de right ter be heared in dis meet'n', I'll say w'at I has ter say, an' it won't take me long ter say it. Ef I should try ter tell all de things dat Miss Noble has done fer de niggers er dis town, it'd take me till ter-morrer mawnin'. Fer fifteen long yeahs I has watched her incomin's an' her outgoin's.
'Tenafly Gold is sellin' fer twenty dollars on the Curb right this minute! An' he says, says he: 'Yew git yer husband, an' bring that air stock over this arternoon; an', says he, 'I'll realize on it fer yer ter-morrer mornin'." Abe stared at his wife, at her shining silk dress with its darns and careful patches, at her rough, worn hands, and at the much mended lace over her slender wrists.
"The Yankees have found out Daws is thar in the Gap," he said, "an' they are goin' to slip over before day ter-morrer and s'prise him. Hit don't make no difference to us, which s'prises which does it?"
So Alston emptied out the cotton he had worked so hard to gather, listening moodily to the overseer's harsh threats: "Yer reckon I's goin' to stan' sich figgers? Sixty-seven poun's! fou' poun's 'head uv yistiddy. Yer ought ter be fawty ahead. I won't look at nothin' under a hunderd. Ef yer don't get it ter-morrer I'll tie yer up, sho's yer bawn, yer great merlatto dog!
"Then," said the Boarder beamingly, "the bay winder shall be cut out ter-morrer." "Don't cut it out!" said Amarilly alarmed. "I don't mean in a slang way," he said, laughing. "I mean cut out with a saw."
'Cept de overseer, dere isn't a white man on de plantation, an' I hear he has to report ter-morrer or be treated as a deserter. An' der's nobody here to look arter Miss Mary an' de chillen, but myself, an' to see dat eberything goes right. I promised Marse Robert I would do it, an' I mus' be as good as my word." "Well, what should you keer?" said Tom Anderson.
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