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As if to affirm these characteristics he spoke to me the moment I had entered, in a voice which seemed to be adapted to a general address to the three or four other bachelors who were waiting in the frescoed vestibule for a conveyance. "Yaas, sah, Mr. Estabrook, sah. De dohman lef' a message, sah. Der has been a lady waitin' foh you, sah, mos' all de ahfternoon.
As I drew bridle he gave me a dull, almost sullen glance, and it was not until I spoke sharply to him that he shambled forward and descended the two steps to hold my stirrup. "Is Sir Lupus at home?" I asked, looking curiously at this mute, dull-eyed black, so different from our grinning lads at home. "Yaas, suh, he done come home, suh." "Then announce Mr. George Ormond," I said.
"Waal, you heerd Tom Davis' blab this evenin'; an' you know that Bob's got the idee into his intelleck that the cuss of a sart'in man as he onct wronged is a-stickin' to him yit, an' never will let loose till he passes in his checks?" "Who was the man?" "Boone Randolph, of Booneville." "My father?" "Yaas, yer pap. He's down powerful on your pap, that's sart'in.
I said, tapping him at once on the shoulder, and arresting him from the abstracted contemplation of two stylish girls in pink, who were just turning the corner of the churchyard out of sight. "Yaas, 'do?" he replied, moving his head round slowly, as if it worked on a pivot which, wanted greasing, so as to confront me. He was as mild and imperturbable as usual.
Morris," said the officer, "your wife has agreed to keep my letters for me " "Yaas," broke in the postmaster. "I know'd she would. Yeou'll find she'll dew it right, tew. Nobody can't come enny tricks on her can they, Sue? I wish one o' 'em durn'd deetecters would come around, jest tew see heow she'd pull the wool over 'im.
"Diligence, coupe, morning." "I want two seats in coupe. If I can't get them, two in banquette." "Yaas banquette, coupe, yaas, diligence." "Do you understand? Two seats, diligence, Simplon, morning. Will you get them?" "Oh, yaas! morning, diligence. Yaas, sirr." "Hang the fellow! Where is the office?"
Charlie, surprised at the tender tone, repeated "Yaas." "And you and me is mighty close?" "Blame close, yaas." "But you never know me to cheat, old man!" "No," impassively. "And do you think I would cheat you now?" "I dunno," said Charlie. "I don't believe." "Well, old man, old man," his voice began to quiver, "I sha'n't cheat you now. My God! old man, I tell you you better not make the trade!"
"'Noa, answered Davy; and the sweetness of the smile which he now smiled was not confined to his mouth, but broke like light, the light of intelligence, over his whole face. "'Were they gave to ye? pursued the man, now really curious to hear what he would say. "'Yaas, said the poor fellow; and he clapped his hands in a kind of suppressed glee. "'Why, who gave 'em to ye?
Picking it up with the fork he examined it critically, and then said, quite amiably for him, "Yaas, yaas, that's it, bring me some." Next he required coffee. The coffee arrived in what might have been either a cup or a thimble. "What's this?" demanded Burton. The waiter said it was coffee for one. "Then," roared Burton, with several expletives, "bring me coffee for twenty."
"Yaas sonnies," said Charlie Burroughs, of the Third Michigan, in that nasal Yankee drawl, that he always assumed, when he wanted to say anything very cutting; "you trundle bed soldiers who've never seen a real wild Yankee don't know how different they are from the kind that are starved down to tameness.
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