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I reckoned I'd waltz over and bring along the boy," pointing to a grizzled negro servant of sixty who was bowing before them, "to tote yo'r things over instead of using a hack. I haven't run much on horseflesh since the wah ha! ha! What I didn't use up for remounts I reckon yo'r commissary gobbled up with the other live stock, eh?"
She turned and ran quickly into the cabin, so that he should not see the tears which followed the smile. "Rose war right erbout yo'r goin', I reckon she air allus right," came Big Jerry's voice. "Yo' hev got ter go; but I'm ergoin' ter miss ye powerful, likewise, lad." "But I'll see you again, too, before long.
Yo' and me are good enough friends. But the girls round here think yo' 're a trifle too much taken up with rice and niggers. And looking at it even in yo'r light, co'nnle, it ain't BUSINESS. Yo' want to keep straight with Major Reed, so it would be just as well to square the major's woman folks.
Philip more bravely said, 'I have fifty-three pounds seven and fourpence in yo'r hands, Master John, and it's all I have i' the world. 'It's a pity, said John, and again they were silent. Half-past nine struck. It was time to be beginning to make an end. 'Perhaps, brother, they have friends who could advance 'em the money. We might make it sit light to them, for the sake of their good service?
But she heard Kester's words well enough, and so he saw, although she made this excuse not to reply. But Kester was not to be put off. 'Folks is talkin' about thee and him; thou'll ha' to mind lest thee and him gets yo'r names coupled together. 'It's right down cruel on folks, then, said she, crimsoning from some emotion.
'It were Willie Coulson as telled me, as solemn and serious as one man can speak to another; and he said it weren't the first nor the last time as he had made his own game with young women. 'And how dare yo' come here to me wi' yo'r backbiting tales? said Sylvia, shivering all over with passion. Philip tried to keep calm, and to explain.
A suppose, now yo're such a Quaker that, if some one was to break through fra' t' other side o' this dyke and offer for to murder Sylvia and me, yo'd look on wi' yo'r hands hanging by yo'r side. 'But t' press-gang had law on their side, and were doing nought but what they'd warrant for.
'It's for to see yo'r master, said Hester. 'Philip says he'll be sent to York to-morrow, and yo'll be fain to see him before he goes; and if yo'll come down to Monkshaven to-night, yo'll be on t' spot again' the time comes when t' justices will let ye. Bell was up and about, making for the place where she kept her out-going things, almost before Hester had begun to speak.
"If you ever git married, Jimmy, don't you let yo'r wife do it. Sometimes th' babies burn up or break their necks!" Again he turned along the crest of the slope, his eyes once more searching the valley, and Langdon followed a step behind him, wondering what had become of the cub.
Deliberately, yet with uneasy self-consciousness, ignoring the presence of Courtland, he nodded abruptly to Miss Reed, ascended the steps, brushed past them both without pausing, and entered the house. "Is that yo'r manners, Mr. Tom?" called the young lady after him, a slight flush rising to her sallow cheek. The young man muttered something from the hall which Courtland did not catch.
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