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"Ef it's all be'n an' done reco'nized an' 'cided dat I's got de right ter be heared in dis meet'n', I'll say w'at I has ter say, an' it won't take me long ter say it. Ef I should try ter tell all de things dat Miss Noble has done fer de niggers er dis town, it'd take me till ter-morrer mawnin'. Fer fifteen long yeahs I has watched her incomin's an' her outgoin's.
"Oh, ay," said he, "I heared tell o' that. But 'tis not t' the point. Davy, lad," in an undertone which betrayed great agitation, "she've her cap set for a man, an' she's desperate." "Ay?" said I. He bent close to my ear. "An' she've her eye on me!" he whispered. "Skipper Tommy," I earnestly pleaded, "don't you go an' do it."
"Davy, lad, I'd kind o' like t' just t' feel it. They wouldn't be no hurt in me holdin' it, would they?" I passed it over. "Now, Davy," he declared, his head on one side, the letter held gingerly before him, "I wouldn't read that letter an I could. No, lad not an I could! But I've heared tell she had a deal o' l'arnin'; an' I'd kind o' like t' take a peek inside.
"I reckon you are right," he replied, but he did not whisper, and out in the road there was a quick scuffling of feet and then a halt. I threw one arm about Alf and pressed one hand over his mouth. "What was that, Scott?" "I didn't hear nothin'." "Thought I heared somebody a-talkin'." "Yes, you thought like Young's niggers thought buck-eyes was biscuits. Come on, boys.
'Six, and the mother! I heared un say; 'no cure for it, till I have all seven. But stop, miss. Not a breath to any one! Here comes the poor father and mother to speak the blessing across their daughter's grave and the grave not two foot down yet!" Now this account of what Jacob Rigg had seen and heard threw me into a state of mind extremely unsatisfactory.
He calculated everybody to Deerfield was dead and married, so he didn't come back; but now he is a-comin' back, for he's lost a leg, and he's got some money, and they say he is a-goin' to settle down here." "Has he come yet, Miss Hitty?" "No, they're expectin' of him to Miss Warner's every day; you know she was Miss Parker's half-brother's wife." "Yes, I have heared she was.
On a sudden dere was a man right 'longside ob me, an' he say, 'Make a noise or move, an' you are dead. What are you doin' here? I gasp out, 'White-rose, Cap'n Lane. 'Oh, it's you, he say, wid a low larf. Fo' I could speak dere come a scream, sich as I neber heared, den anoder an' anoder.
Sure, says he, 'Jagger never heared that word! "Well, sir, as you knows, there's been a wonderful cotch o' fish on the Labrador side o' the Straits this summer. An' when Skipper Jim hears a Frenchman has brought the smallpox t' Poor Luck Harbour, we was tradin' the French shore o' Newfoundland. Then he up an' cusses the smallpox, an' says he'll make a v'y'ge of it, no matter what.
She sat up in bed and drew me closer. "An' why, dear?" she asked, stroking my cheek. "Along o' what I heared in the dark, Bessie at his door." "You've not been eavesdroppin', Davy?" she chided. "Oh, I wisht I hadn't!" "'Twas not well done."
'It's just because o' that husband o' thine as has gone and left thee; thou's pining after him, and he's not worth it. Brunton said, when he heared on it I mind he was smoking at t' time, and he took his pipe out of his mouth, and shook out t' ashes as grave as any judge "The man," says he, "as can desert a wife like Sylvia Robson as was, deserves hanging!" That's what he says! Eh!
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