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"Which will give 'im to me till the cotton crop is picked, and several months more to work on the Jackson Swamp ditch if Fetters gits the contract. You stand by us here, Haines, an' help me git all the han's I can out o' this county, and I'll give you a job at Sycamo' when yo'r time's up here as constable.
"Ef yo' air goin' back ter the village, stranger, I'll be pleased ter sot ye on yo'r way," he announced as he drew on his coat, and to Donald's mind the sentence carried an unmistakable double entente. Nevertheless he answered promptly, "Thanks, I'd be much obliged if you would. Perhaps Mr. Webb can spare me a lantern, too, since these paths are unfamiliar to ..."
Phoebe might easily have told him the real state of the case; Nancy was busy at her washing, which would have been reason enough. But the nursemaid had vexed her, and she did not like Philip's sharpness, so she only said, 'It's noane o' my business; it's yo' t' look after yo'r own wife and child; but yo'r but a lad after a'.
I had to dig in with both feet and my fingers. If it had been any steeper I would have used my teeth." Langdon sat up, knocked the ash out of the bowl of his pipe, and reloaded it with fresh tobacco. "Bruce, that's the biggest grizzly in the Rocky Mountains!" "He'd 'a' made a fine rug in your den, Jimmy if yo'r gun hadn't 'appened to 'ave been under you."
Ef yo' ain' too white to sit down with a black man." The leaves parted, and a smiling face as black as Gideon's own regarded him in shy amusement. "Who is yo', man?" "I mought be king of Kongo," he laughed, "but I ain't. Yo' see befo' yo' jes Gideon at yo'r 'steemed sehvice." He bowed elaborately in the mock humility of assured importance, watching her face in pleasant anticipation.
I'll not give you work. There's your answer. 'I hear, sir. I would na ha' troubled yo', but that I were bid to come, by one as seemed to think yo'd getten some soft place in, yo'r heart. Hoo were mistook, and I were misled. But I'm not the first man as is misled by a woman. 'Tell her to mind her own business the next time, instead of taking up your time and mine too.
We Yo'r Hum'ble Petitioners being desirous to Prevent the Inconveniences that may arise from all Irregular Intrusions into any vacant Lands, and also In a Regular manner to Settle a Township on the Land afores'd, by which the frontier on that Side will be more Clos'd & Strengthened & Lands that are at Present in no wise beneficiall or Profitable to the Publick might be rendred Servicable for the Contributing to the Publlick Charge, Most Humbly Address Ourselves to your Excy: And this Honourable Court.
Yo'r very face, looking wi' yo'r clear steadfast eyes out o' th' darkness, wi' yo'r hair blown off from yo'r brow, and going out like rays round yo'r forehead, which was just as smooth and as straight as it is now, and yo' always came to give me strength, which I seemed to gather out o' yo'r deep comforting eyes, and yo' were drest in shining raiment just as yo'r going to be drest.
The Boer smiled. He had heard of Americans, and asked eagerly if Jordan and his friend came from America. "Yo' may bet yo'r everlastin' broken Dutch diaphram that we did," said Jordan, at which the Boer hurried to tell his companions that the two strangers were not English, notwithstanding their clothing.
"Yas, sah," the old negro answered, "an' now every man in the town either owns his house or is buyin' one f'om the syndicate, an' we have bought up all the surveyed property f'om the Colonel. Now, sah," continued the preacher, "if yo' will excuse me, Ah will see that yo'r supper is got ready.
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