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As I was going he touched my arm: "You will say de soul is parted from dat lill' bird. And yass; but" he let a gesture speak the rest. "I know," replied I; "you propose to make the soul seem to come back and leave us its portrait. I believe you will." Whereupon he gave me his first, faint smile, and detained me with another touch. "Msieu Smeet; when you was bawn?" "I? December 9, 1844.
Had it been similar to that midway between Yass and Underaliga, we should, in truth, have found it so; but it struck me, that there were many rich tracts of ground among the valleys of the former, and that the very hills had a fair covering of grass upon them. What though the soil was coarse, if the vegetation was good and sufficient?
'Mah golly, Ah think, 'dey's a conspiration a-foot, yass, sah, and if dis yeh ol' nigger don't look out dey gwine hu't de boy. If Ah gits into dat yeh conspiration, den Ah guess Ah'll snoop roun' and learn what Ah didn't had ought to, and when time come, den mah golly, Ah'll took good keer of dat boy.
His eyes sought Flora, but she was hurriedly conferring with her grandmother. Hilary laughed: "You'll see. I fixed all that a week ago. Will you get the minister?" "Why, Hilary, this is " "Yass!" piped Madame, "he'll obtain him!" The plaudits of the dancers, who once more had stopped, were loud. Flora's glance went over to Irby, and he said, "Why, yes, Hilary, if you why, of course I will."
"Try try aga-a-ain," responded Marguerite; "Bonaventure learn me that poetry; and you?" "Yass," said Claude. He stood looking down at his work and not seeing it.
He began that peculiar, sympathetic laugh of the negro, which catches and doubles on itself, and I imagined that a new admiration for me dawned on his face. "Yass'r, yass, Marse Dave, I reckon M'lisse 'll git it to her 'thout any one tekin' notice." I bit my lips. "If Mrs. Clive receives this within an hour, Melisse shall have one piastre, and you another. There is an answer."
"Ah's gwine tell you, boy, dis yeh crew am bad 'nough, but when dah come a ha'nt boat a-sailin' oveh yondeh jest at dahk, boy, Ah wish Ah was back home whar Ah could somehow come to shoot a rabbit what got a lef' hind-foot. Yass, sah."
"Den he laff hearty and slap his knee and he say 'Ef you come in with us, you won't git cook's pay, no' sah. You is gwine git pay like no admiral don't git if you come in with us. Dah's money 'board dis yeh ol' ship. "'Yass, sah, says I, suspicionin' su'thin' was like what it didn't had ought to be. 'But dat's owner's money. "Den stew'd, he say, 'Listen!
The notary once more handed him the pen, but the same thing happened again. The butcher cleared his throat in a way to draw attention. Attalie looked towards him and he drawled, half rising from his chair: "I t'ink a li'l more cognac" "Yass," murmured the baker. The candlestick-maker did not speak, but unconsciously wet his lips with his tongue and wiped them with the back of his forefinger.
Tombs?" "Oh, we keep a-goin', thank the Lawd. Brother March, I've got pow'ful good news." "Is it something about my mother? She was here about an hour ago." "Yass, it is! The minute she got back to ow house and O, John, it jest seems to me like her livin' with us ever since Widewood was divided up has been a plumb providence!
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