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I jes done see whar de possum is dis minute. What an ole black fool I was, sure 'nuff. I tho't he'se de mos 'bligin man I eber seed afore," and he told her how Arden had served her in her illness. She was divided between amusement and annoyance, the latter predominating. Hannibal concluded impressively: "Miss Edie, it must be lub.
"Yes, Miss, sech a plunge thet ef this child tho't thar was any likelihood of it comin' loose from its moorin's while we're hyar, he wouldn't be smokin' his pipe so contented. Jest look at thet boat." "The boat! what of her?" asks the skipper, in some apprehension, at length beginning to comprehend the cause of Seagriff's uneasiness.
Pore feller, he's patient as he always is, but he's all mussed-up an' broken shocking; shot in the side an' got bones smashed up. Howsum, he's goin' on all right, an' we hope for the best." "I 'lows that's neat," Rube said, lighting his pipe. "'Tain't jest what I'd fancy. Sounds kind o' familiar. An' I guess it's li'ble to scare her some." "Well?" "Wal, I tho't we'd put it easy-like."
"Av ye hit it up a bit mebbe ye c'ud be in toime to see the ind av it to-morrow, Oi dunno." "But truly, Geraid," asked Donald, "how are we doing?" "As weil as c'ud be ixpected av a lot of farmers," replied the irrepressible Gerald. "Ye moight do worse, Oi dunno. Mebbe av ye tho't ye were hoeing potatoes ye c'ud do betther. Can't ye hit up a bit?"
He was trying to make out the outlines of the huddled furniture when he heard a step behind him. It was the old farmer from the nearest cottage on the road. "Mornin', doctor! I seen ye comin' in, and tho't ye might want to see the house." "Good morning, Scudder! I do, if you'll let me in. But first tell me about these automobile tracks in the drive."
"She thinks well, you see, she says I'm very young, and and " "Ah, I tho't mebbe ther's suthin' agin him. You see, Rosie, ther' mustn't be anythin' agin the man you marry. He's got to be a jo-dandy clear thro'. I " "But I'm not going to marry Lord Vinceps, you silly, at least I don't think so. Besides," as an afterthought, "it's nothing to you who I marry." "Wal, no.
Despite her struggle to control herself, her voice broke and her eyes filled with tears. "P'r'aps if I'd had more," she kept on, regretfully, "why, you can't tell what I might have been. Say, that's a terrible tho't, ain't it? What we might a been an' I know it when I look at you."
"He's very kind. He's like a woman fur kindness to such as me. When I come to die, I'd like eyes such as his to look at, tender, pitiful." "Women are fools alike," grumbled the Doctor. "Never mind. 'When you come to die? What put that into your head? Look up." The child sheltered the flaring candle with her hand. "I've no tho't o' dyin'," she said, laughing.
A fine specimen of the "Richmond darkey" of the old school-polite, flattering, with a venerable head of gray wool, was the bartender, who mixed his juleps with a flourish as if keeping time to music. "Haven't I waited on you befo', sah? At Capon Springs? Sorry, sah, but tho't I knowed you when you come in. Sorry, but glad to know you now, sah.
I hain't reely. I wouldn't 'a' sed a word if I'd tho't " "Don't you worry, boy," Elvine cried, as she turned her horse about. "I wouldn't give you away. I wouldn't give anybody away now. You see, you never know how things of that sort can come back on you."
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