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Updated: May 8, 2025
"'What on airth do you mean, sais she, 'you blockhead; it might as well mind you of tunder. "'Well, Missus, sais I, 'now sometimes one ting does mind me of anoder ting dat way; I nebber sees you, Missus, but what you mind me ob de beautiful white lily, and dat agin ob de white rose dat hab de lubly color on his cheek.
She a 'fessor ob religion, ye de word 'spook' set her all a tremble. Ef dey is spooks, Aun' Jinkey, w'at dat ter you? Dere's tunder en lightnin' en yearthquakes en wurin' iliments en all kin' ob miseries ob de body. Who gwine ter keep all dem fum yo' cabin? Reck'n you betteah trus' de Lawd 'bout spooks too." "You don't believe in any such foolishness, Uncle Lusthah?"
A door led to a couple of bulkheaded compartments in the fore part of the state cabin, and Sweers was in the act of advancing to it when he cried out: "By the tunder of heaven, what is dot?" losing his customary hold of the English tongue in the excitement of the moment. "The ice is melting and discharging in Niagara Falls upon the whaler's deck!"
Don't do it now; scowl on his face de minit he cum near me, and look so like a tunder cloud, I 'spects to be struck wid lightnin' ebery minit. If he'd tie me up, and whip me, and den be hisself agin, I wouldn't care; but de Lord knows I lub my Massa dearly, and can't bar' to hab him turn de cold shoulder to me, and show he hab no more confidence in his nigger, 'tall."
But even whilst I thus thought, holding my breath and waiting for the death that was to come with the pouring of the water down the open companion-way, I felt the ship right; she lifted buoyant under foot, and I sprang to the steps which conducted on deck, with Sweers as I might know by his voice close at my heels, roaring out, "By tunder, we're adrift and afloat!"
"Tunder and ages! man, and would you be letting him come over ye that way? If any blackguard of a lawyer could be selling an estate that way, because money may be a little scarce or so, would there be so many gintlemen in the counthry, enjoying themselves in their own houses, just keeping the right side of the door?
Now that my business is past, let me hear yours, poor fellow, an' I'm devilish glad to know, Connor, that that why, tunder an' ouns, that you're not as I am. Be the crass that saved us, Connor, I'm glad of that!" "Why, love will set you mad, Bartle, if you don't take care of yourself; an', faith, I dunna but it may do the same with myself, if I'm disappointed.
"Gott in Himmel," finished the corporal, "I never was so frightened in my life. I see him now, as plain as I see you, mynheer. Twenty tousand tyfels, but the voice was like de tunder and his eye like de lightning I fell back in one swoon. Ah, mein Gott, mein Gott!"
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