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It seemed too that she did know it, that from her first gleaming of consciousness she had turned to him as her friend, her protector, and her best beloved. When she heard his footsteps, she turned in Mornin's arms, or in her cradle, to look for him, and when she saw his face her whole little body yearned towards him.
"Ay, lad, I'm thinkin' that we had best stand by the general, for he may be needin' us before this mornin's work is done, an' we sha'n't be takin' a great deal of time from Jacob, because, in case of arrivin' before Colonel Gansevoort is ready for us, the scrimmage will soon be over."
"I'd show him, if I had him in here for twenty minutes!" "That fellow's interested me," said Crothers. "He's got me thinking. I vote we investigate him." "How?" "Ashore, fathead." "There'll be no shore leave." "No? You left off being wet nurse to the dawg?" "I brush him, mornin's; if that's what you mean." "Is he fit?" "Fit to fight a bumboat full o' pilots!" "Could he be sick for an hour?"
Sez I, "If it hain't a pitiful sight in one short mornin's ride to go by more'n a dozen of them poor deserted old homes, as I have many a time, and I spoze they lay jest as thick scattered all over the State and country as they do round Jonesville."
Miss Margurite made our dresses an' lak, an' afte' Aunt Harriet died, she done de cookin' too fer all de slabes an' de fambly. She fix up dinner fer de fiel' han's, an' I taken it to 'em. Marse George had old powder horn he blowed mornin's far to git de darkies up 'fo day good, an' dey come in 'bout sundown. "Miss Margurite had a piany, a 'cordian, a flutena, an' a fiddle.
"I ain't quite made up my mind," said her mentor. "I'll talk it over with the neighbors. But I 'spect, if we kin skeer up a quarter, that you'll answer by the mornin's mail." That night Lovey Mary sat in her little attic room and held Tommy close to her hungry heart.
"They'll see ye; but I must say, I sh'd ha' thought ye'd know better'n to be comin' round here this mornin' of all mornin's. Ain't they to have a minute's peace to theirselves?" Ike looked up appealingly at the hard Indian face. "I wa'n't goin' to keep 'em a minute," he said: "I won't go in now. I'll come agin, ef you say so, Hannah."
Wa-al, you stay till Thursday mornin' and kind of visit with Homer, and say good-by, and then you kin go. Thursday mornin'.... Not a minute before." "But " "Thursday mornin's the time, I said.... G'-by." Next morning Scattergood was absent. He had taken the early train out of town, as Pliny Pickett reported, on a "whoppin' big deal that come up suddin in the night."
"Do yoh 'spect I could do it?" he demanded excitedly. The proprietor, secretly astonished by the old man's manner, nodded assuringly. "Why, yes, you could easily; it's nothing much; but the Colonel " "Colonel doan have foh to know," exclaimed Uncle Noah. "I comes yere mornin's foh he's up an I 'clare to goodness, sah, I needs de money mos' powahful."
That accounts for the difference of our styles." "But," continued Prosper, "I oughter remember suthin about our old times runnin' arrants for you, and bringin' in the wood o' frosty mornin's, and you givin' me hot doughnuts," suggested Prosper dubiously. "Nothing of the sort," said Mrs. Pottinger promptly. "We lived in the city, with plenty of servants.
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