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"He only told her to git right back in thar, an' keep still. It was just as that whole caboodle come tearin' up this las' time, sir. It wan't no safe place fer a girl whar you was. Ragan he promised to tell you, only he got hit 'fore the fracas was done. That's why Foster chirked up, an' that's all of it." The man had made it clear as far as he understood.
Dey didn't take any ob de niggers, 'cause dey had killed 'em all but me, and I was already dead, but I comed to agin." "None of Captain Prescott's family were in the house besides Mary, were they?" asked the Lieutenant, asking a question of which he well knew the answer. "Nobody else wan't dar bress de Lord! Missis Prescott and Helen went off on a visit to de settlement, t'ree, four days ago."
Thar ain't nuthin' much wus than listenin' to other folks when they talk business. Now the fust woman on the earth listened when her husband he was a talkin' to an angel that was out in the garden a sunnin' hisse'f, and they called her a Eve drapper." "Wall, you wan't a talkin' to no angel, I'll tell you that." "Talkin' to one now, ain't I?" "Jasper, I didn't come in here to be made fun of.
"I made a noose on one eend o' it, and after about a score o' trials I at last flung the noose over the head o' one o' the bars, and drew it tight. I then sot to work to pull the bar nearer. If that bar's neck wan't well stretched I don't know what you'd call stretchin', for I tugged at it about an hour afore I could get it within reach.
Ov coorse he wur throwed in his tracks. "Now, you'd a-jumped up, an' frightened the rest away that's what you'd a done, strengers. But you see I knowd better. I knowd that so long's the critters didn't see my karkidge, they wan't a-gwine to mind the crack o' the gun. So I laid still, in behopes to git a wheen more o' them.
"Drink come natural to him, 'twas born in him, I expect, an' there wan't nobody that could turn the divil out same's they did in Scriptur'. His father an' his gran'father was drinkin' men; but they was kind-hearted an' good neighbors, an' never set out to wrong nobody.
Anythin' goin' on round here?" "Nothin' wu'th dividin' 'cept Mose Blake fell into the river yistidy an' was drownded." "What, you don't tell me so?" the old man exclaimed. "Yes, couldn't swim a lick atter he struck the water an thar wan't no use in tryin' befo' he struck." "Powerful sorry to hear it," said Jasper. "Good feller worst habit of his was always tryin' to talk when he couldn't." "Yep.
Gentlemen of the jury, if I had time, if I had the opportunity, if I might be permitted to go on and tell you the thousands and thousands and thousands of mutilated strangers this poor girl has started out of cover, and hunted from city to city, from state to state, from continent to continent, till she has run them down and found they wan't the ones; I know your hearts "
I allus said that these here frog-eatin' Frenchmen wan't to be trusted; and here, you see, I was right. I see about how it is. The poor, unfort'nate Parson's done for, an' I'm in for it, too, I s'pose." Claude turned, and gave Zac a look of indescribable distress. "There's some infernal villain at work, Zac," said he, "out of the common course, altogether. I'm arrested myself." "You?
Was the Road House story really coming, and from Dad's very own lips? "It must have been a sad sight, wasn't it, Dad, to see your home demolished in that fashion?" quietly suggested Mr. Allen, by way of encouragement. "'T wan't near as sad a sight as some I have seed," replied the old man.
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