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The minute following he was inclined to think he might have been mistaken, perhaps it was yesterday or the day before or even last week that his employer received such a letter. Captain Shadrach lost patience. "Sure 'twan't last Thanksgivin'?" he demanded. "Are you sure about anything? Are you sure how old you are?" "No, by godfreys, I ain't!" roared Isaiah in desperation.
Applesnack and a few of the boys tried to keep 'em away, but 'twan't no use. Ten minutes arter they went down the road Mis's Given come lookin' for Eli, and some one told her where he'd gone. She hit the trail, and next we saw she was marchin' him back through town, with Uncle Eb and the deacon peggin' along behind, lookin' as meek and meechin' as wet cats.
No, neither him, nor Rivers, nor any of the regulators thank the powers ain't to be seen nowhere. They're all off up into the nation, I guess, or off, down in Alabam by this time, clear enough." "And who did you see at the rocks, and what men were they that made you prisoners?" "Men if I said men, I was 'nation out, I guess. Did I say men?" "I understood you so." "'Twan't men at all.
"Queer kinder fellow," said a wrinkled old bayman with whom I walked up the sandy road, "I seen him a good deal round here, but 'twan't like havin' any 'quaintance with him. He allus kep' himself to himself, pooty much. Used ter stay round 'Squire Ladoo's place most o' the time keepin' comp'ny with the gal I guess. Larmone?
"Miss Stewart's gone to live with the Shakers. My husband drove her over with his team her and her trunk." "Why, where was her aunt? Did Mrs. Sloman know? Why isn't Miss Bessie with her?" "Miss' Sloman said all she could afterward I guess," said the woman, wiping her eyes, "but 'twan't no use then.
'Twar the very duds that girl used to wear, an' her bulk to an inch. It kudn't a been liker her. Darn me, ef 'twan't eyther her or her ghost!" "It is very improbable that it could have been either?"
The next morning, when I returned from my inspection, I found the rector and Philip had decamped with two of our choice horses, and that my uncle and aunt had commanded the barge, and gone to Mr. Lloyd's. I sent for Scipio. "Fore de Lawd, Marse Richard," he wailed, "'twan't Scipio's fault. Marse Grafton is dry fambly!" This was Scipio's strongest argument.
It's goin' to be awful hard on your grandma and grandfather and me and Labe, all us folks here at home, but I guess it's the thing you'd ought to do, the Penfold kind of thing." Albert smiled. "I'm glad you think so, Rachel," he said. "Well, I do, and if I'm goin' to tell the truth I might as well say I tried terrible hard to find some good reasons for thinkin' 'twan't.
"Pansy," said Scattergood, and he patted her back with a heavy hand that was, nevertheless, gentle, "if 'twan't for Mandy, that I've up and married already, I calc'late I'd try to cut Ovid out.... But then I've kinder observed that every woman you meet up with, if she's bein' crowded by somethin' hard and mean, strikes you as bein' better 'n any other woman you ever see.
Guess they'll all have to git their wimmen-folks to press their clothes to-morrow. Then Duncan wanted to git out again, but 'twan't exactly convenient. Callated he was suffocatin' seemed to need air. Little mite limp when he broke loose, Duncan was." The Honorable Peleg stopped again, as if he were overcome by the recollection of Mr. Duncan's plight. "Er er Peleg!" Mr. Hartington started.
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