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Yaas, that's what THEY called it, but we don't go much on fancy names down here. No, the painter didn' 'zactly live there, but it 'mounted to the same thing. Las' summer they was all away, house shet up, painter hangin' round all the time, 's if he looked fur 'em to come back any minnit. Purfessed to be paintin', but I don' see's he did much.
"You'll excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, but you see as how I've fallen in with an old ship, who I've known as man and boy these twenty years, so I must just now keep him company; but I'll come back to-morrow and finish that there stave I was a-singing, and spin you more of my wonderful yarns, if you'll just be good enough to come here and meet me; now mind, my little dears, bring plenty of coppers; and you, my pretty girls, bring something in your purses for poor Jack; I never takes no money from ugly ones it's a rule of mine, it's wonderful too how few I ever see's; so good-bye, and blessings on all of you; and now, Ben, we'll up anchor and make sail."
"I'm sure it does now, Master Mark, and what the thinks have made me see's this: if you and me had kept going on instead of sitting down, and eating and drinking till we went fas' asleep, we should have found ourselves in Ergles Hole, and if it hadn't been for the Purlrose gang, we might have worked back 'bove ground." "Why, Dummy! I don't know yes, if it's that way goes for miles.
It was to see that the Negroes went to bed on time and didn't steal nothing. But my master and missis never allowed anybody to whip their slaves. What the Slaves Expected and Got "I don't know what the slaves was expecting to get, but my parents when they left Ben See's place had nothing but the few clothes in the house. They didn't give em nothing.
A few months earlier Ann Eliza would have met the confession with a word of pious admonition; now she accepted it in silence. "Maybe you'll brighten up when your cough gets better," she suggested. "Yes or my cough'll get better when I brighten up," Evelina retorted with a touch of her old tartness. "Does your cough keep on hurting you jest as much?" "I don't see's there's much difference."
When this point was satisfactorily settled, much to the dissatisfaction, however, of Master Teddy, a sudden thought struck Mary. "Why, wherever can Miss Conny be all this time?" she exclaimed, on looking round and not finding her with the other children. "See's done home," said Cissy laconically. "Gone home!" repeated Mary. "Why?"
Here the iron ring was grinding against and under the retaining ball which alone prevented its slipping off the top of the pole. "I don't see's we'd be any wuss off ef we did come loose," said Rebecca, with eyes still closed. "At least we wouldn't be gummed here ez tight's if the walls was fly-paper." "No, but we'd fly off at a tangent into infinite space, Rebecca Wise," Phoebe said, sharply.
Before we had gone a mile into the forest Jim jerked the mare back upon her haunches and, pointing to a great hemlock standing sentinel over us, cried out with boyish enthusiasm: "Take a look at him once. Ain't he a ring-tailed roarer? Seems to me a tree big as him must be awful proud just o' bein' a tree. Ain't nothin' 'raound here kin see's fur as he kin, anyways."
She was gone some time, and when she returned her face was grave. "What's the matter? Didn't she like 'em?" asked the boy. "Yes, indeed, she was ever so pleased with them, and told me to thank you for sending them to her but, Theo, she's worrying so over Dick. She thinks he's going all wrong." "So he is," answered Theo, soberly. "And can't you do anything about it?" "Don't see's I can.
He longed to override his own sense of etiquette and question Mrs. Eliot, who continued to ramble on in her own way. "I takes off the coverings every two months, and brushes it all down myself," she explained, "and I've never had anyone to help me before. If I were to let them girls in they'd break every vase in the place with their frills and their 'didn't see's."
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