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Women have been borne out from an old-world hospital, two in one coffin, that the horrors of their prison-house might not be known, while the very men who were discussing the treatment of the disease were stupidly conveying the infection from bed to bed, as rat-killers carry their poisons from one household to another. N. E. Quar. Jour. of Medicine and Surgery, April, 1843.
He said that she could claim that Dick's quar condition an' his disinclination to furnish a support equal to her reasonable demands justified her in callin' the fust deal off; or, on t'other hand, that she could regyard it as the only obligation to which she was bound by law or religion, an' that he would set about after the fee was paid in cash, or by check on any good, reliable bank, or even by a solid, negotiable note he would set about to have the second weddin' set aside, and an-an "
Misc Somers, she never had no man, an' she talks mos' about the women that has got one. I think Aunt Vesty has got the best man in Prencess Anne. He's the richest. He's the freest. He never courted no other gal. He ain't got no quar old women runnin' of him down caze Misc Somers is dreffle afraid of him!" This last remark seemed apologetic and an afterthought.
'Thank you, she said with meek gratitude at the end, 'I thank you. 'Il n'y a pas de quar, replied Daddy, bowing; and the adventure came to an end. The others luckily had not heard it in full swing; they only caught the final phrase with which he said adieu. But it served its unwitting purpose admirably. It brought him back to the world about him. The spell was broken.
They were picking their way along as best they could, when they struck a small stream, when the scout paused so suddenly that his comrade inquired the cause. "That's quar, powerful quar," he said looking down at the ground and speaking as if to himself. "One horse has been 'long har, and I think it war mine, and that he had that younker on his back." "Which way was the young spalpeen traveling?"
You'se on de safe side ob de crack yit, so be keerful. I knows woman folks soon as I claps my eyes on dem. Miss Mara quar in her notions 'bout de Norf she was brung up to 'em but dere's nuff woman in my honey lam' to make a tousan ob dis yere limpsey-slimpsey one." Clancy clinched his hands in mental distress as he listened to the hard sense and unerring judgment of the sagacious old woman.
"Was there any reason why Ethelyn should go away?" she asked next, and Richard's head dropped, and his eyes were cast down in shame, as he replied: "Yes; we quar . We differed, I mean, the night before I went away, and I kept her from the masquerade, I would not let her go. I locked the door, and now she has gone gone to Mrs. Amsden's."
The old aunty watched her curiously and sympathetically as she thought, "Bress her heart how purty she am, bendin' heah an' dar like a willow an' lookin' de lady ebery inch while she doin' kitchen work! Quar pahner fer sech an ole woman as me ter hab, but I dun declar dat her han's, ef dey am little, seem po'ful smart.
He watchin' lak a ole fox ter ke'p you en Zany yere. Ef you puts out, he riz de kentry en put de houn's arter you. We des got ter skeer 'im off fust. I'm studyin' how ter git dat dawg out'n de way. Des go on quiet few mo' days en ef you year quar noises up on de hill whar de sogers bur'ed you know hit me. Look skeered lak de oders but doan be fear'd en keep mum."
"Here," said he, quite magnificently, "here's quar'." The waiter kept his hands on his tray. "I don't want yer money," he said. The other put forth the coin with tearful insistence. "Here's quar'!" cried he, "tak't! Yer goo' f'ler an' I wan' yehs tak't!" "Come, come, now," said the waiter, with the sullen air of a man who is forced into giving advice. "Put yer mon in yer pocket!
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