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I inquired. The Prince larfed & intermatid that the old man didn't let many kegs of that bevridge spile in the sellar in the coarse of a year. We sot & tawked there sum time abowt matters & things, & bimeby I axed him how he liked bein Prince as fur as he'd got. "To speak plain, Mister Ward," he sed, "I don't much like it.
And all the rest of you join chorus, as loud as you can bawl, "Oh Lord Missus." The black rascals understood the joke real well. They larfed ready to split their sides; they fairly lay down on the ground, and rolled over and over with lafter. Well, when they came to the chorus 'Oh Lord Missus, if they didn't let go, it's a pity. They made the river ring agin they were heerd clean out to sea.
If I have taken it away, I have done him a great sarvice, for he has a smart chance of gettin' a better one; and if he don't find a swap to his mind, why no character is better nor a bad one. "Well, the old judge and the whole court larfed right out like any thin'; and the jury, without stirrin' from the box, returned a vardict for the defendant.
I larfed so vi'lently that the preserve jars rattled like a cavalry offisser's sword and things, which it aroused my BETSY, who came and opened the door pretty suddent.
Thanks to you, all the same, an' no offence meant," he added in a gentler tone, turning to the astonished steward, and patting him on the shoulder, "but if you had suffered all that I have suffered through bein' a slave to the glass and the pipe when I thought I was no slave, mark you, an' would have larfed any one to scorn who'd said I wos if you'd see'd me groanin', an yearnin', an' dreamin' of baccy an' grog, as I have done w'en I couldn't get neither of 'em for love or money you wouldn't wonder that I ain't goin' to be such a born fool as to go an' sell myself over again!"
Bewlah larfed, but I didn't mind her doin' on't, for she sez, sez she, real sort o' cunnin', "'Poor Hiram! they didn't use yeou waal. Yeou ought to hev tried some er the poor an' humly girls; they'd a' been glad an' grateful fer such a sweetheart as yeou be.
"Well, he made no answer, nother; and thinkin' he didn't onderstand English, she tried him in Italian, and then in broken French, and then bungled out a little German; but no, still no answer. He took no more notice of her and her mister, and senior, and mountsheer, and mynheer, than if he never heerd them titles, but jist larfed on.
I then axed if there was enny more Octoroons present, "becawz," sez I, "ef there is, let um cum along, fur Ime in the Octoroon bizniss." I then threw my specterculs out of the winder, smasht my hat wildly down over my Ise, larfed highsterically & fell under a seet. I lay there sum time & fell asleep. I dreamt Mrs.
Don't ye recollex the trick that ar minx played on him? She unbuckled the girt o' his saddle, jest as he wur a-goin' to mount, and down he kim saddle, bags, and all cawollup to the airth! ha! ha! Arter he wur gone, I larfed till I wur like to bust." "You did wrong, Hickman Holt, to encourage your daughter in her sauciness. Had you known the man that man, sir, was a prophet!" "A prophet!"
Hicking to tell how the hair is getting darker, and heaps of things beside?" "Such as what?" "Like whether he larfed, and if he has her nose, and how as he knowed him. He tells her them things more'n once." "And all this time he is sitting at the foot of the bed?" "'Cept when he holds her hand." "But when does he get to bed himself?" "He don't get much. He tells her as he has a sleep at the club."
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