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stick and knocked bob s head off this fortunately did not do and when bob went to the university afterward he was said to have the best head in his class she just turned around and ran into the house with her face very red but she never bob after that not long after this he went off to college for mr the said he alread...	46
simply referring to his having saved some for shortly afterward he came over one and to the colonel s disgust paid him down in fu the amount of his bond he attempted a what formal speech of thanks but broke down in so that two were ordered out b the colonel to easy relations them an effect which apparently was not pro...	46
he fully expected to see s face and to receive her approbation and thanks what was his disappointment to see her face grow distinctly white all she said was oh uncle it was unfortunate that the day was sunday and that the colonel went with her to church which she insisted on attending notwithstanding her headache and ...	46
was almost at the foot bridge that somebody had made for her so carefully with logs cut out of his own woods and the long shadows of the made it gloomy and everything was so still that she had grown very lonely and unhappy thus it happened that just as she was thinking how kind he had been making the bridge and hand r...	46
winter looking after some she had and showing her something of the world remonstrated it was all in vain had seriously frightened the old man about her health and he was preparations were set on foot the brown hair trunks with their lines of staring brass were out and the colonel got into a fever ordered up all the in ...	46
here she asked i don t smell anything but that bed you ve been walking on he laughed as they rode off leaving and charity stand ing in the road the last thing said was now be sure you tell him nine o clock i know he sell me den said in a tone of conviction as the horses away in the frosty night once or twice as they g...	46
the world and a face made up of light and laughter yet tearful too like a dew bathed flower was pressed to his and before the colonel knew it he had amid laughter and sobs and caresses been borne into the house and pressed down at the little breakfast table eyes ever saw set for three persons and loaded with steaming d...	46
in giving a strong portrait of his friend the subject oi the throws so much light upon his own strong personality that the is sure to excite the greatest interest new dollar novels published by charles s sons each one volume j mo cloth ft oo by price reduced to one dollar a romance upon the history of the family in the...	46
about my climbing capacity in a way which me and giving me the with a which somewhat me now i will write a letter to of the mountain and to i once was enabled to do them a slight service and they wiu receive you it will take him two or three weeks to get it so you may have to wait a little you must wait at l until com...	46
of this indeed he had i now remembered said very little at all about the people he had exhausted his eloquence on the fish i recalled his words when i asked him about she is a daughter of the poor thing that was all had he been up to a practical joke if so it seemed rather a sorry one to me just then but anyhow i could...	46
for breath my guide however if silent was thoughtful and he soon caught my gait and knew when to pause up through the dusk we went he guiding me now by a word telling me how to step or now turning to give me his hand to help me up a steep place over a large rock or around a bad angle for a time we had heard the roar of...	46
was a firm mouth a good jaw strong chin a broad brow and deep blue eyes which looked straight at you her expression was so soft and tender as to have something pathetic in it her hair was and as fine as satin and was brushed perfectly smooth and on the back of her head which was placed admirably on her shoulders she wa...	46
world without end then he turned to the chapter of now is christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept etc his voice was clear rich and el d devout and he read it with singular earnestness and beauty it gave me a strange feel ing it is a part of our burial service then he opened his hymn bo...	46
man i sought and brought her he spoke of him as if i must know all about him was the son of my only the last of his line as well and he was tall and straight and strong i loved him and he was my son and as he grew i saw that he loved her and i was not sorry for he was goodly to look on straight and tall as one of el ol...	46
for the winter and he laughed and said no i will stay till the new year i have business then in england and i must go and i turned and her face was like sunshine for she knew that none but and i had ever passed the devil s ledge in the snow and the other way by which i took the doctor home was worse then though easier ...	46
had deceived more than one woman and lord went to get ready and she wept and moaned and was strange and then went to her and told her of his own love for her and that he was loyal to her bat she waved him from her and when he asked her to marry him for he loved her truly she said him nay with violence so that he came f...	46
i went to look for him aa i approached i heard a dull sound when i reached the cleared place i found him digging he had chosen a spot just in front of the quaint old door with the rude letters which the earliest would touch as i came up i saw he was digging her grave i offered to help but lie said no so i car him some ...	46
cross the mountain we came by the same path by which i had gone leading me as carefully and holding me as steadily as when i went over before i stopped at the church to lay a few wild flowers on the little gray mound where slept so quietly said not a d he simply waited till i was done and then followed me i was so fill...	46
on the side of her head with she does declared margaret her eyes dancing and has a long nose red at the end uncle you have seen her i know you have seen her asserted margaret laughing up at him you have her very picture the major groaned and vowed that he would never survive it and that margaret washington s last woul...	46
of george washington she might have inquired of one of the numerous maids whose useless presence embarrassed her but the major that she might pursue her investigation in other directions had informed her that the was guarded with the greatest care and that it would be as much as any one s life were worth to it miss the...	46
george george washington you mean george washington no madam he has not a of intelligence he is and stupid i have never in fifty years been able to get an idea into his head oh dear and i thought him so clever i was wondering how so intelligent a person so well informed could be a slave the major faced about george ...	46
rose with a look out of her bright eyes yes you are if you are not you are the very rose from which it is washington s last oh how charming cried the young lady how i wish some woman could hear that said to me don t give him credit before you hear all his proverb said do you know what he said in the dining room don t c...	46
his confidence if you drive a bargain i will drive one also rose declared that he was the greatest old screw she ever knew but she paid the price and waited well well of course i told him well i gave him the best advice a man ever received a lawyer would have charged him five hundred dollars for it i m an on rose decl...	46
her he had known margaret ever george washington s la t she was a bit of a baby and had often carried her in his arms when she was a little girl and even after she grew up to be right big he had thought frequently of late that he would be willing to die if he might but take her in his arms it was therefore with no litt...	46
he would attend rather as a witness than as a second the young men assented to this and the major now thoroughly in earnest with much solemnity offered the use of his pistols which was accepted in the discussion which followed the major took the lead and suggested sunset that after george washington s last noon as a su...	46
i thought i ought to like a man on dis you infernal rascal didn t i tell you that the next time you took my clothes without asking my permission i was going to shoot you the major faced his chair around with a jerk but george washington had in the recovered himself yes i remembers he said complacently but didn t have n...	46
ain know tall about you him he waved his hand in scorn ah said the major as he set about the pistols handling the ball somewhat e washington asserted i b i know mo bout the code n you does the major looked at him as he the ball down hard he was so skilful that george at length added but i bee you ain how to handle thin...	46
word it was his final hope washington s last i don t nobody nobody at all i ain but a de box down you me to s all an i ll off you coat an dis ef you ll le me up off de suddenly appeared george lay out on the ground as flat as a field lark but at s appearance he sprang behind in amazement was inquiring the meaning of al...	46
who lay flat on his face kicking and groaning at intervals she upon the major with so much vehemence that he was almost carried away by the sudden oh you wretch what have you done she panted scarcely able to articulate done madam asked the major gravely yes what have you done to that poor miserable creature there she ...	46
explained his friends accepted this criticism with proper de de de de de de an the final ending es was plainly supposed to give additional dignity now is quality i know all bout em he paused long enough to permit this to sink in i b to you know what he his emphasis compelled me to acknowledge his exalted position or ...	46
he declared expected to be better than white folks like white folks ain been free sense de begin he however shortly returned to his theme well thing i one sunday i down in my house an come p all done fixed up a high collar on high as master s an a better breeches on n i wear in my life an a an a cane an a i he comes in...	46
in my ban an come long way by myself i think maybe a at could like a man shoot like a man too where did you go and what did you do next i asked the old fellow as he paused with a little nod of satisfaction at his wisdom i went home he said i de way p had done bob s de ring an he to wash n n but don i p come home to som...	46
i warn out p b but i knew i do de place i ever smelt in my life i tell you i ia done smell all de smells o an an but i ain smell like jail mr had to hole he nose while he in an he say he ll de to come an ac as ray council i tell him nor put me in an i reckon he ll me out when he ready i tell you i p ashamed for de a ma...	46
of being too well known to require further discussion t to seed but what could mrs do she could not change the course of destiny one especially if she is a widow with bad eyes and in feeble health living on the poorest place in the state cannot stop the stars in their courses she could not blot out the past nor undo ...	46
the war odd volumes of the novels and the spectator don and a few others stained and battered he could not have gone to school if there had been a school to go to he had to to i work work as mrs had said like a common he did not mind it a bird born in a cage cannot mind it much the pitiful part is it does not know any...	46
was hard the life was hard standing on top of rattling cars as they rushed along in the night around curves over bridges through with the rain and snow in your face and the tops as slippery as ice there was excitement about it too a sense of risk and danger jim did not mind it much he thought of his mother and there wa...	46
over to see them to show s new dress she had promised that mr would do what he could for him jim on the road next month jim went back to the freight service he preferred dick rail to mrs he got him dick was worse than ever his appetite was by he returned to his attack with renewed zest he never tired never he was perp...	46
he knew anything he was so up we laid him out on the grass and that young lady took his head in her lap and cried over him she had come and seed i to seed him in the engine and said she knew his mother and sister down in the country she used to live down there they was that jim was all they had and when one of them old...	46
her released instead s a of of being sent to but what was need of instances he was the a soldier of the empire and there was not a dog in the quarter which did not feel and look proud when it could trot on t inside of the hy him thus the old came to be as the of order in the quarter and was worth more in the way of kee...	46
and before receiving a reply were shot dead at their sides the wounded were more ghastly than the soldier of the dead their faces growing suddenly from the shock as they were struck the lay in piles around their guns and still the worked furiously in the dense heat and smoke the sweat pouring down their blackened faces...	46
outside world it had formerly been their once splendid now fast falling to decay appeared to view from time to time set back far from the road in proud seclusion among groves of oak and now scarlet and gold with the early frost distance was nothing to this people time was of no consequence to them they desired but a le...	46
arms it s de truth i m yo an yo ought to a heard de folks boy u he won t i kin trust im and den he now sam from dis time you belong to yo young i wan you to on im long he lives you are to be his boy from dis time an now he carry im in de house an he walks me an opens de do s fur me an i im in my arms an lays im down on...	46
in to me when i d see her he use to write to her too an she use to write to him too den miss anne she off to school too an in de summer time d come home an yo hardly whether lived at home or over at l s he over constant always or down in de river or sometimes he go over an im an she d go out an set in de yard de trees ...	46
he an ride up de road out o sight an we out in de field a an a when up comes we started to run but he done see us an he called us to come back an a he did gi us he took an den he me up he hu t me but in co se i hard i could it cause i him stop he n open he long im but soon he commence me an i begin to he bu st out an r...	46
to de river we tu ned right up de bank an bout a mile or a matter we stopped a little elder bushes on one side an two big trees on de an de sky all red an de water down to ds the sun like de sky in virginia n y mr he come a box bout so big fore im an he got down an me to all de an go de bushes i tell you bout off to o...	46
de o spring you know night made dress up in he uniform an he n y did look splendid he long an he an he tall supper he come down an sam i wan you to dis note an it over to l s an gi it to miss anne yo own han s an bring me what she don let any one know bout it or know why you ve gone yes i yo see i miss anne s maid over...	46
he d hardly open he you d v tho t he he used to look so but le im into danger an he use to be like times jolly an like when he a boy when cap n got he leg shot off cap n on de spot cause one o de got de same day an one named mr wan no count an all de company said de man an he de same he didn never mention miss anne s ...	46
up de hill de can i seen im when he went de four good ahead o ev y like he use to be in a fox hunt an de whole right im yo ain hear thunder thing de roll head over heels an flung me up g de bank like yo a over g de foot o de corn pile an s what me from bein i she say she think providence but i think de bank o co se pro...	46
de river when hit out he bank he ev y thing when he open he i he face pale an he tremble like a but he eyes an in a minute he he voice like a bell an he man an him out an when he set down all an so you couldn you ears royal den de vote an george got it an all all a few o mr darker s friends an mr darker he de second an...	46
think mr done got up em he de fox an he some n else besides in my cause when de ladies went upstairs night miss had to wait on de steps for a glass o water an couldn nobody it but george an den when she tell him over de he couldn say it good enough he got to kiss her hand an she ain do but peep upstairs ef anybody an w...	46
tell her we mighty proud to own her an one o ax her to gin her white frock when she married an when she say well what am i goin wear sally say lord honey george dress you in pure an she look up at him sparks out her eyes while he look like ain good for her an so when she went way sally got frock an proud on it i tell y...	46
go an he ain even de bed i thought he die but i suppose he done he in virginia m days to be long in de land an save him but hit an he went off de plantation an he got older an older tell we all thought he die an one day come christmas bout nigh two year after die mr ride up to de do he had done come to george home to c...	46
b it all hit look so reasonable she done le de an her ma who on what she her to send back he things an ain know no better not tell after de die den fine out bout de me an all an den miss know i ain stay day an she say bout it but it too late den an miss do but cry bout it an she did cause she done lost george an done h...	46
back an struck out for me for life an how as i went down de last time he me an on to me tell we wash down to de bank curve an de current so rapid hit him off back but he on to de reins tell de horse so he hit him he fo foot an he collar bone an den he had to let him go an on to me an den we wash up de bank an in a tree...	46
wouldn lay an her eyes i do b she laugh mo em n her she de light o dis plantation when she d come in you house like you d back de an let piece o de sun in on de you could see by her an he used to her i don o in virginia you see one she up at him her back out her big brown eyes an to do what he do when went footed she ...	46
him an in virginia him after he on de an kiss him an out she say she ain him but she love him so much he kiss her mighty two or th ee times an den she let him go an he come an on he horse an rid way at a gallop out de back gate he cap on de side he head an went in de house an horse warn go up de stable right den de day...	46
sunrise and den we had to dig de grave an when we got home she had de coffin brought in and him in he own room while we and she set in all day long him and he look like a boy so young in he little gray jacket he s o de cross he we bury him in de and warn in de county to be he pall so de hands on de place him and it eas...	46
de po ch a young man an walked in de do he s o de back in he when he got t in he off he cap an bout half way up to we all he say i madam for out lady a story of the war ages officers ought to be shot for it it is against all orders i don t know it is our first says we are much to you though t i myself says he up a litt...	46
done scotch em an begin to bring de wounded an put em in folks houses bring em in an tell ev y room in de house full up on y an lady room an room an de up o sheets an linen an things fur an you ever see an lady even cut up under es fur cause you know to have linen an an lady up under es tell got out had to go long afte...	46
de fan an de to her own room to yes she did thing she did an i him say w a lady a story of the war loi afterwards when he wake up all he could think bout he done to heaven well after lady she him to an an n y he able to be out on de big po ch an up a shawl an things in a big arm cheer an cause she took to her an keep ...	46
used to on him an her he sort o when to her sometimes d in de boat on de pond an she d row him while he d steer cause he shoulder lady a story of the war ain le him row i see em of a sort o down de trees nigh de bank or cow water flowers she ain got no hat on or maybe a soldier s cap on her head an hear em cross de w...	46
ain look like she look an she n y do rose bush nigh de gate but de een o de good times hit like winter all de good luck done gone way de place de weather so severe an we done gi de de feed done gi lady a story of the war out an rank i tell you an lady sent to an sell bonds an some buy things to eat an de rest gin de me...	46
rose bush an steal one of her roses i mighty nigh tell her who i b an i would on y i don t you know t do to lady a story of the war well no t while after de war broke de spring bout corn time on y we ain plant much cause de team so weak an together done clean us up an an lady had to gi a deed o on de to buy a new team ...	46
int after to feed george a little some n ev y day den she de school did you know bout de school house right down de road a little piece i reckon you see it as you come long i ain b it when i em say lady lady a story of the war teach it i say she teach she ain not my young but she laugh at me an an say she been de color...	46
be her she know he ll do it an i ain to le lady know bout it not t all an to tell him he been mighty good to her an she him her den she so faint i run an call an she come an gi her some an tell me to de mule an go after lady an so i did when she got do done speechless done her in de bed which wan t no trouble she so la...	46
de matter an den i a horse long right brisk an i stop an listen an de horse come long de right study an up de stable i say hi who an when i went to de stall do a man on a strange horse two white an a beard on he face an he hat pulled over he eyes to keep de sun out n em an when he see me he ride on up to de stable an ...	46
she say an say what he been to you an she say an say you done sen him way an she say yes den she tell her what tell me de day she die an she say she stop sort o but she hold de pillar right tight like she in agony an she say n y please go way an come way an come s an de cap n when he come down de steps he went to lady ...	46
th oo de house an de l he so impatient he set still he he bit so he up an walk bout in de hall an he n y look handsome an young like he did day he stand he cap in he hand an lady say she ain claim no kin him an he say he intrude on ladies an back out de front do he head straight up an ride to her de letter an now he in...	46
and fluttered up the ladder to the where they had been born and yet once more the baby s voice prevailed and once more the woman went to the door and looking down the path screamed awe little awe little ma m came the not very distant answer from the bushes why n t you come long boy an rock dis in ou virginia yes m i ca...	46
side then on the other with her hand it with her apron and walked to the door and poured a of water from the over it then she divided it in half one half she set up against the side of the chimney the other she broke up into smaller pieces and distributed among the children dragging the sleeping limp and soaked with sl...	46
some compensation s thoughts had taken a new direction he al feared he d come for him while he way he said in mere continuance of his last remark he sen me he to night an he want he shut said his wife as she handed him acted his supper s face expressed more than interest it was tenderness which softened the rugged as h...	46
home to go to heaven said what was you name said he simply they were at the cabin now and a brief pause of doubt ensued it was perfectly dark inside the door and there was not a sound the bench where they had heretofore held their only communication with their strange neighbor was lying on its side in the weeds which g...	46
when i home he sank back exhausted be glad to see me he asked presently in pathetic simplicity you know we up i been so long i feared done me you reckon is he asked the woman no ain you she said comfort i know ain he said reassured g i o in virginia what he tell me he ain me the reaction had set in and his voice was s...	46
of his life it was said among other things that he preserved his wonderful strength by drinking human blood a tale which in a certain sense i have never seen reason to question making all his life was a blot upon civilization at length it a brutal temper by passions after a long period of license and came to a climax i...	46
the secret meetings held under their and he would doubtless have been taken up and off at once but when the fled as i have related their convert disappeared also it was a subject of general in the neighborhood that he was gotten rid of and his master instead of being on the loss of his slave was congratulated that he h...	46
away from the wall while the wide door stood slightly giving to the place a singularly ghastly appearance somewhat akin to the color which sometimes on the face of a corpse in my progress through the swamp i had gone around rather to the side of the house toward where i supposed the itself to lie in virginia was now qu...	46
and get to sleep but sleep was far from my eyes my surroundings were too vivid to my apprehension the awful traditions of the place do what i might to banish them would come to mind the original building of the house and its blood stained foundation stones the dead who had died of the that had raged afterward the bodie...	46
eyes and the same soft white look though was for she was a great and used to run wild over the place with bob climbing cherry trees and fishing in the creek and looking as blooming as a rose with her hair all tangled over her pretty head until she grew quite large and the colonel got her a he thought of sending her to ...	46
old but they never could induce her to shoot at anything except a mark she was the tenderest hearted little thing in the world if her taste had been consulted she would have selected a for it did not make such a noise and she could shoot it without shutting her eyes besides that she could shoot it in the house which in...	46
her uncle always seemed to her to get the worst of the argument at any rate he generally got very hot this however might have been because bob was so cool while the colonel was so hot tempered bob had grown up very handsome his mouth was strong and firm and his eyes were splendid he was about six feet and his shoulders...	46
her lapse of memory had a singular effect on bob for he turned quite pale and insisted that she did remember it and then said something about having wanted to see the colonel and having waited and did so strangely that if that rose bush had not caught her dress he might have done something else but the rose bush caught...	46
to bid bob good by and never see him again she had made up her mind to this on her knees so she knew she was right the pain it cost her satisfied her that it was right she was firmly resolved when she set out that afternoon to see old who was in everybody s judgment except her own quite and whom dr pronounced entirely ...	46
stood three days before christmas the whole plantation was plunged in gloom it would be the first time since miss was a baby that they had not had a big christmas s countenance one morning seemed to shock the colonel out of his he asked how many days there would be before christmas and learning that there were but thre...	46
a cross road which led out of the plantation into the main road mechanically he opened the gate and rode out before he knew where he was he was through the wood and his horse had stopped at the next gate the gate of bob s place the house stood out bright and plain among the yard trees lines of blue smoke curled up alm...	46
of a new york the new york times s brief list of fiction that o s paper cloth illustrated l through one tion l i louis ana l mo a fair t mo paper v ag a bon a a love story l mo paper l surly tim and other mo i s earlier series earlier stories second series l mo each paper the pretty sister of by c s little lord vo or...	46
ing poles for de boys he answered promptly and definitely we s em soon then he added won have none from else at all lady done ma tell how used to poles right dis ridge an fling a line nay sort o pole at all he mo like dan he like he pa sometimes i think he done come back he s he ve y t an image who are the boys taking ...	46
not much he say sort o bark him oh p him ev y chance d d plump at him he de main man same as when you d plump at de middle man but ain him but one when we ain from him in long time an think he up in de valley ride right up in de yard an face light up to see him tell she look like a young he say he ain got long to stay ...	46
den she say she her son dying in house an she to him she talk mighty but mighty terminated like sort o reason her but she walk on by her head up an tell me to her an i did mon an em in de road gun de whole army couldn a keep her not den i got to de house an drive up nigh as i could fur de t cross de yard lady look like...	46
says well i m goin to says he you are not says at him right study her head up an her eyes i had lady ty my axe in my han an i mighty but i know ef he had lay his han on de i was split him wide open he know better n to her do he sort o like he warn her an all de stop an listen who s in says he no one says well what s in...	46
he done come back to gi her lady she so busy him to go way an save f she done to thank him she fur him to go an hit like de mo she beg de mo he lady at de gate down at her not our a sort o smile on he face tell as our gallop up in one side de yard an call to him to s render he say good by an tu in lay he t big bay hors...	46
when de to come an drive our back an our soldiers didn want to be an moved way an n y warn none but cap n an he still in de an he eyes wide open an ain know de doctor say he wound better but he got fever an he hole out much longer say he d been dead long ago but he so strong an one night he went to sleep an de doctor c...	46
cap on on s o de he done down off de wall and he order me to come long and tell lady not to come out nd down de lady steps he stride and cross de yard out th oo de gate in de road to de horses at de fence he face right set he ax em one or two questions bout from den he tell em who he is and trouble de man horses see de...	46
till he gone how we all on him cause i ain de y one done miss him she bout him she miss him an lady she right study her close but she her eye on me she miss him an she signify it too she tell bout he done ax her to marry him some day an to le him come back an ax what she say an she tell her an up out her cheer an went ...	46
lady small an i tell him nor lady room right next to dis side an he stop an look at de good den he come long to de gate an when i ax him which way he he say by de tree ford an blessed ef de ain bring up things i done l up to de gate an lady her eyes de rose de cap n done gi her off same bush an de l say he envy him he...	46
an i tell her i owe it to her for rent an she bu st out so she me she say she owe me an her ev in de an she know we em cause helpless an things an she cry so i an her how i come by de money an she stop an listen good den she say she a cent o money an she mon tell i tell her lady i wan buy de mule an she say she conside...	46
pillow an n y she say she hope would lady her an she out her breast little rocks gi her when she married been an she say she gin up all the but she keep to gi lady when she married an now she feared pride an done punish her her starve but she ain know bout hit an ance he forgive an she went on an talk bout an times whe...	46
go to an sell de mule an de money an on de an fine him i know she it cause she al a powerful han to anything but it n y did hut me to part mule he a ambitious mule an i tell i ain done corn an she say ain meek no she de corn after i gone an de so she feared she ll die an what good corn do den she mo n she say so i to g...	46
two a thing ain been done not sick an den i see her de rose bushes mighty busy an when she me in de room a whole s lady o flowers she done put in a blue dish in de middle o de table an she as bout thing as ef a fifty cents somebody done gi her well den she come out an a as she ef she ain got more an on fire den i been ...	46
hung on her arm the house was a large brick edifice with a roof covered with moss small windows with pillars somewhat out of repair a big high hall and a staircase wide enough to drive a up it if it could have turned the corners a grove of great forest oaks and shaded it and made it look rather gloomy and the garden wi...	46
see her and the light of the evening sky was on her face it made her look very soft she lifted up her eyes and looked far off toward the horizon i remember it recalled to me young as i was the speech i my cousin had heard some one once make when i was a little boy and which i had thought so ridiculous that when she was...	46

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