My Southern Friends ...Carleton, 1863 - 308 páginas |
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... told me she'd been turned out of doors for not paying her rent , and was afeared she'd die in the street , though she didn't seem to care much about that , except for the boy - she took on terrible about him . She didn't know what would ...
... told me she'd been turned out of doors for not paying her rent , and was afeared she'd die in the street , though she didn't seem to care much about that , except for the boy - she took on terrible about him . She didn't know what would ...
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... told me so . ' " Who told you so ? " I asked , very kindly , for I saw that her mind was wandering . " My mother ; she has been with me - all the day — and I have been so - so happy , so — very happy ! I am going now— going with her . I ...
... told me so . ' " Who told you so ? " I asked , very kindly , for I saw that her mind was wandering . " My mother ; she has been with me - all the day — and I have been so - so happy , so — very happy ! I am going now— going with her . I ...
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... told me her story . Weaving it into some details which I gathered from others after her death , I give it to the reader as she out- lined it to me . She was the only daughter of a well - to - do farmer in the town of B- in New Hamsphire ...
... told me her story . Weaving it into some details which I gathered from others after her death , I give it to the reader as she out- lined it to me . She was the only daughter of a well - to - do farmer in the town of B- in New Hamsphire ...
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... told her that the old Quaker gentleman , the head of the great house he was with , had taken a fancy to him , and was going to send him to Europe , in the place of the junior partner , who was sick , and might never get well . That he ...
... told her that the old Quaker gentleman , the head of the great house he was with , had taken a fancy to him , and was going to send him to Europe , in the place of the junior partner , who was sick , and might never get well . That he ...
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... told you so before . " now . " I can't think so , Thomas ; but it's too late to alter things We shall see . Time will prove him . " I soon left , but not till they had shaken me warmly by the hand , wished me well , and promised me ...
... told you so before . " now . " I can't think so , Thomas ; but it's too late to alter things We shall see . Time will prove him . " I soon left , but not till they had shaken me warmly by the hand , wished me well , and promised me ...
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My Southern Friends: All of which I Saw and Part of which I was James Roberts Gilmore Vista completa - 1864 |
Términos y frases comunes
ain't Ally anoder asked bery better bless blige Boss Joe bout bress Cale child chile Cragin cried darkies Dawsey Dinah doan't ebery exclaimed eyes face fader father Frank Gaston Gin'ral girl glad gwine haff hand he'm hun'red hundred dollars I'se inter jess John Hallet Jones county karn't Kate Kirke Larkin laughing leff looked Lord massa Robert master more'n mother Mulock nary neber negro never Newbern nigger nigs nohow nuff nuffin onst ooman Phyllis plantation reckon replied Preston right smart Robert Preston rose Rosey seated sell Selma Squire tell thar thet thet's told tone took trader turned turpentine Wall whar whip wife woman wuck yere young
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Página 167 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 125 - Her children rose up and called her blessed ; her husband also, and he praised her.' Such was ' the lady ' in the old Scottish house. Her speech was the Doric of her native land, as broad as that of her domestics. Trained from her earliest days to use her hands, and believing in the dignity of labour, she taught her daughters to be what the law, based on an old fact, still as a fiction...
Página 203 - Ole Aggy an' I hab trabbled de road. Hand in hand we hab gone ober de rocks ; fru de mud ; in de hot burning sand ; been out togedder in de cole, an
Página 203 - My chil'ren, lub one anoder; bar wid one anoder; be faithful ter one anoder. You hab started on a long journey; many rough places am in de road; many trubbles will spring up by de wayside; but gwo- on hand an...
Página 203 - ... peace hab broke fru de clouds, an' sent him bressed rays inter our hearts. We started jess like two young saplin's you's seed a growin' side by side in de woods. At fust we seemed 'way part fur de brambles, and de tick bushes, an...
Página 204 - way part, fur de brambles. an' de tick bushes, an' de ugly forns — [dem war our bad ways] — war atween us, but lub, like de sun, shone down on us, an' we grow'd. We grow'd till our heads got above de bushes ; till dis little branch, an' dat little branch — dem war our holy feelin's — put out toward one anoder, an' we come closer an
Página 204 - An' dough we'm ole trees now, an' sometime de wind blow, an' de storm rage fru de tops, an' freaten ter tear off de limbs, an' ter pull up de bery roots, we'm growin' closer an' closer, an' nearer an' nearer togedder ebery day. An' soon de ole tops will meet ; soon de ole branches, all cohered ober wid de gray moss, will twine roun' one anoder; soon de two ole trees will come, togedder, an...