Beadle's Dime Novels No. 95 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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“Of course.” “ ‘Wha’ he be ?” ’ “Have you seen him, I say? Speak, dog, or rl will. Nave you flayed alive !” “Don’t car’ if you do; I ain’t seen him.” The hag knew all the superstitions of the negro. “True as you live and breathe ?” she asked. “ Oh, I won’t say dat;” replied Tom, horrified. “ You a I won't say dat?’ | “ Where did you getthe knife ?” * « Bairies brung it an’ dropped it ober dar’.” “ True as you live and breathe ?” . “Oh, no, I nedder say dat,’ answered the black, who im- agined that some fearful thing would happen to him if he in- voked such testimony; and though he still persevered in the assertion that he had not seen Ronald, she was now quite cer- tain that he had, and turned to meet ee ar “Who his bein here ” was her frst question. “ Spealk, — !” “Captain Mannering,” replied Maggie, quietly. “ Have you been with him?” hissed the -vindietive a ead: man. “Do you dare to tell me you have been with him ?” “Why should I not ?” said she, quietly. — captain is my friend,” | Her mother looked at t the girl some rilomnend without « re- ply. In her rude way, she boved her daughter; but her hate - of the English was engrafted in her-very blood, bred in her bone, and burst forth on every occasion like the fiery lava of & volcano. It was evident that she only hesitated in order to keep down her anger, for, rude and harsh to every other earthly thing, she was gentle to her only child, and loved. her, with a certain fierce, untutored passion, such as the tigress might feel for her young. Her old face worked strangely, in the moments she waited, before she trusted her voice to “Let me understand this fully, Marguerite.” She never would give her the English name. “You have met Captain Mamnering. Was it an appointment 9" “No, mother,” v ® comicbooks.com