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Richling, incensed, had turned her back, and Richling was saying good-day. "She did say the room was vacant!" exclaimed the little wife, as they reached the sidewalk. But the next moment there came a quick twinkle from her eye, and, waving her husband to go on without her, she said, "You kin paz yondeh; at Madame La Rose I am shoe you be pritty sick."
"Oh, not as an office, I hope?" "Worse! The worse that can be! They 'ave stop' five prisoner' from the boat and put them yondeh. Since an hour Col-on-el Grinleaf he tol' me that and she's ad the bottom, that Flora! Bicause " The speaker gazed. Anna was all joy. "Because what?" demanded Anna, "because Hil ?" "Yaas! bicause he's one of them! Ringgleadeh!
He say he don't get not'in' since he come yondeh," said Catou, the distress that had gathered on his face disappearing for a moment. The questioner laughed contemptuously. "Do you suppose he works that way for nothing? How do you know, at all, that his real errand is to teach school? A letter from Mr. Wallis! who simply told your simple-minded brother what the fellow told him!
"Dat Gran' Point'," resumed the black; "'tain't no point on de riveh, you know, like dat Bell' Point, w'at you see yondeh 'twixt dem ah batture willows whah de sun all spread out on the wateh; no, seh. 'Tis jis lil place back in de swamp, raise' 'bout five, six feet 'bove de wateh. Yes, seh; 'bout t'ree mile' long, 'alf mile wide. Don't nobody but Cajun' live back dah.
The letter r, for instance, that plague of all nations before consonants it disappeared; before vowels the tongue failed of that upward curve that makes the good strong r's of Italy and Great Britain. The negro pointed over his mule's ears. "You see Belle Alliance sugah-house yondeh? Well, behine dah you fine one road go stret thoo the plantation till de wood. Dass 'bout mile, you know.
"Whyn't you make Johnson give you a mount once in a while?" "He says I ain't smart enough," was the sulky reply. Little Mose laughed. "He jus' pig-headed, thass all ail him! You like to git a reg'luh job ridin' faw a good man?" "Would I!" "Well, I knows a man whut wants a good boy. See that tree yondeh? That big one? Le's see who kin get there first!" "It it's pretty far, ain't it?" "Shucks!
It had never occurred to him that a man with a few spelling-books and elementary readers could be so dangerous to society. "I wish he clear out from yondeh," said Catou. He really made his short responses in French, but in a French best indicated in bad English. "Not for my sake," replied the priest, coldly smiling.
"What do yu' make of the proposition yondeh?" As he pointed to the cause of this question he had become again his daily, engaging, saturnine self. Then I saw over in a fenced meadow, to which we were now close, what he was pleased to call "the proposition."
"Laughin' at yo' friend yondeh," said one of the citizens, grinning and waving his hand after the departing conductor. "'Caze if you lafe at me again, saw," the frown deepened, "I'll thess go 'ight straight out iss caw." Out of this car.
Knocked again, and a third time; but in vain. Went next door and inquired of a pretty girl, who fell in love with him at a glance. "Yes, but they had moved. She wasn't jess ezac'ly sure where they had moved to, unless-n it was in that little house yondeh between St. Louis and Toulouse; and if they wasn't there she didn't know where they was.
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