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"And who told you of the attempted burglary and the burglar's arrest?" asked Penfield. "Miss Barbara. She asked us to hurry breakfast for her and Miss Helen 'cause they had to go at once to the police court; she didn't give any particulars, or nothing," added Grimes in an injured tone. "'Twarn't 'til Thomas and I saw the afternoon papers that we knew what had been going on in our own house."
"No," said Joseph. "He's gi'en me a holiday. I tode him as 'twarn't natural to think as a man 'ud want to go to work i' togs like thesen. The fust day's wear, and all!" "Well, if you should care to earn a shilling " "I couldn't undertek a grimy job," said Joseph. "Not to-day. A message now." "A message? Could you take the message in a wheelbarrow, Joseph?" "A barrer?"
But I never could git no good out of Bosaw with his whisky and meanness. And I went to the Mount Tabor church concert. I heard a man discussin' baptism, and regeneration, and so on. That didn't seem no cure for me, I went to a revival over at Clifty. Well, 'twarn't no use. First night they was a man that spoke about Jesus Christ in sech a way that I wanted to foller him everywhere.
Mary Cary's arms were around the shaking little figure, whose face had grown white with the effort of her frankness. "Why, Peggy dear, what are you talking about? There's nothing to thank me for. Who wouldn't do what's been done? You mustn't talk like " "Nobody but you would have done it. I warn't any kin, and 'twarn't a Christian duty like goin' to church.
"'Twarn't no use to say nothin', she flew off into one o' her tantrums, and scolded me like all possessed. I don't like her, anyhow, and dat's all 'bout it!" "But is dat all?" questioned Dolf, in a disappointed tone. "No, it ain't all; jis' wait and don't go off de handle afore you knows which end you've got hold on." "But de tree, Clorindy," said Dolf; "tell me 'bout de tree."
"I thought he'd have got in before me. I saw him as I came up." "I reckon he won't git in befo' he gits a drench-in'," responded his stepmother, glancing indifferently through the back window. "If he does it'll be the first time sence he war born. 'Twarn't nothin' to be done in the fields, nohow, an' so I told him, but he ain't never rested yet, an' I don't reckon he's goin' to till I bury him."
Early in de mawnin' some er de niggers come along, gwyne to de fields, en dey tuk me en showed me dis place, whah de dogs can't track me on accounts o' de water, en dey brings me truck to eat every night, en tells me how you's a-gitt'n along." "Why didn't you tell my Jack to fetch me here sooner, Jim?" "Well, 'twarn't no use to 'sturb you, Huck, tell we could do sumfn but we's all right now.
"He'd have come right on here," declared the ranchman's wife. "No. 'Twarn't Bob." "Then I thought it might have belonged to that man who stopped us," suggested Frances. "If that's so, I reckon he got square for his loss, didn't he?" cried the lady. "I reckon that chest was filled with valuables, eh?" Fortunately, Frances had swallowed her coffee and the mule team rattled to the door.
"Silence, Pete!" whispered Archie sternly. "'Twarn't me, sir. It's this 'ere Malay chap. I think he means that you oughtn't to make so much noise at that end. I wanted to say something of the kind, but I didn't want to be rude to the young lady."
And you don't believe it? I do, every word of it! I am sure it is true!" "Wal, ye see," said the farmer, meditatively; "Ef' t was true, what become o' the necklace? That's what I say. Father believed it, sure enough, and he thought he hed that necklace, as sure as you think you hev that bunnit in yer hand. But 'twarn't never found, hide nor hair of it." "Might he not have sold it?"
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