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"Yes, seh, Mahstah Majah, it suttinly do seem lahk them railroad genamen would git monst'ous rich a-runnin' them freight trains about th' kentry th' way lahk they do. Ah allus think them ole freight cyahs look maghty cheap an' common a-rattlin' around, but Ah teks mah ole hat off to um yehafteh. Yes, seh, Ah lays Ah will!
Then he added in a tone of conviction, "That's great." "Better come in, too," said Andrews. "Thanks, thanks.... Say, if you don't mind my suggestion, why don't you fellers get under the water.... You see there's two French girls looking at you from the road." The "Y" man giggled faintly. "They don't mind," said Andrews soaping, himself vigorously. "Ah reckon they lahk it," said Chrisfield.
"Yes, seh, on that tavehn cohnah, a-settin' on a cheer an' a-chestin' out his chest lahk a ole ma'ash frawg. 'Peahs like the man ain't got hawg sense, ack'in' that a-way." A concluding sniff left it plain that Potts had been put beyond the pale of gentility by Clem.
It was of this new home that he chiefly talked to me, of the persistence required to have it newly painted by the inheriting Prouse, and repairs made to doors, windows, and the blinds that hung awry from them. "An' Ah been cleanin' yes, seh, Mahstah Majah fum celleh to gahet. Them floahs do shine an' them windows is jes' so clean they look lahk they ain't theah at all.
They're either jackasses or full of the lust for power like their rulers are, to let themselves be governed by a bunch of warlords like that." "Ah'd lahk te cepture a German officer an' make him shine ma boots an' then shoot him dead," said Chris to Andrews as they walked down the long row towards their barracks. "You would?"
And she has been used to wealth on so vast a scale that she has to shorten to single words the expressions describing great sums. She describes 100,000 with one word a 'lahk'; she describes ten millions with one word a 'crore'.
"Well, Mahstah Majah, Genevieve she cyahed a raght smaht fo' me, also, an' she mek it up fo' me t' come along t' town with huh. She sais Ah git a mewl an' a fahm an' thousan' dollehs money fum yo' Nawthen President an' we all live lahk th' quality.
They stood still in the darkening field, staring up at the sky, where a few larks still hung chirruping. "Ah'd lahk to be one o' them guys," said Chrisfield. "You would?" "God damn it, Ah'd do anything to git out o' this hellish infantry. This ain't no sort o' life for a man to be treated lahk he was a nigger." "No, it's no sort of life for a man."
"It's wonderful up here on the hill this evening," said Andrews, looking dreamily at the pale orange band of light where the sun had set. "Let's go down and get a bottle of wine." "Now yo're talkin'. Ah wonder if that girl's down there tonight." "Antoinette?" "Um-hum.... Boy, Ah'd lahk to have her all by ma-self some night."
Thus Clem said to me a few weeks later, and I praised his thoughtfulness. But I nursed misgivings both for Miss Caroline and for Little Arcady. How would they take each other? I conceived Miss Caroline to be a formidable person whom Little Miss resembled, Clem said, "as aigs look lahk aigs."
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