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Updated: June 9, 2025
"Wasn' there nothing in it about Execution Dock; nothing about ripe medlars 'medlars a-rottin' on the tree'? No?" for I shook my head. "Well, then, I could be sworn I heard him singin' them words for minutes, an' me sittin' all the while wi' the horrors on me afore I dared look in his damned face. An' you tell me he piped but a line of it?" His eyes searched mine anxiously.
I think I wasn' ever so naughty aboud anything else. But in the en', with the businezz always diclining, that turn' out fortunate. By and by mamma she persuade' papa to let her take a part in the pursuanze of the businezz. But she did that all out of sight of the public " "Had you never a brother or sister?" "Yes, long ago. We'll not speak of that. A sizter, two brothers; but scarlet-fever "
But the moon shone full on the wall, affording them not a scrap of shadow. "For a moment no one answered. Then I heard mutterings, and, as I stepped up, one of the elder men, Archelaus Warne by name, was pushed forward. "'We wasn' expectin' of you down here, he stammered, after clearing his throat. "'No reason why you should, said I.
So, as 'tis a fine day, I'm drivin' in to Mister Pennyway's shop o' purpose to fetch it afore it be snapped up, for 'tis a captivatin' article. I'll be back by six, tho', i' time to get into my clothes an' grease my hair for the courant, up to Sheba." "Zeb," said his father, abruptly, "'tis a grand match you'm makin', an' you may call me a nincom, but I wish ye wasn'."
"Well, in black an' white you wasn', but ye gave me that idee." Young Zeb stared out of the window. Far down the coombe a slice of blue sea closed the prospect, and the tan sails of a small lugger were visible there, rounding the point to the westward. He watched her moodily until she passed out of sight, and turned to his father. "To-morrow, did 'ee say?"
We played about an hour, and at the close he had won the balance of my bounty, except what I had given to the chaplain for safe keeping, and a pair of pants, and a blouse, and a flannel shirt, and a pair of shoes, which I had on my saddle. I was rather glad to get rid of some of my extra baggage, and when he put on the clothes he had won from me, blessed if I wasn t rather proud of him.
"Before you touch that, I want to ask you if you would be willing that your wife should know how you ear-rned that money?" Yarebrough changed his weight uneasily from one foot to the other, and then sat down suddenly, as if his legs were not equal to his support. "Well, Ah wasn' fixin' to tell M'lissy," he acknowledged.
"Seems I made a mistake," she said, speaking as carelessly as she could, but avoiding the boy's eyes. "You wasn' wanted up there, after all." But he gazed at her, and flung out both arms with a strangling sob. "You won't take me back! You'll hide me you won't take me back!" "Oh, 'ush!" said Tilda.
But he fu'give 'em, fu' he said, 'De sperit is willin' but de flesh is weak. We know dat dey is times w'en de eyes grow sandy, an' de haid grow heavy, an' we ain't accusin' ouah brothah, nor a-blamin' him fu' noddin'. But what we do blame him fu' is fu' 'ceivin' us, an' mekin' us believe he was prayin' an' meditatin', w'en he wasn' doin' a blessed thing but snoozin'."
He could not afford to take the invalid into his house for nothing; but his daughters would look after their grandmother and she should have good medical care as well, if she came on a small allowance. "So the only thing to be done, sir, was for my old woman to go." "And you ?" "Oh, I went into the 'House. You see, there wasn' enough for both, livin' apart."
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