Verwandte Artikel zu Tempest-Tossed (Volume 2); A Romance
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1883. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX. HEART TO HEART. "T DECLAR'," said Jezebel to her mistress, "Massa -L Vail, he's gone to hunt for de strange ship; and de dear lam', she's gone to hunt for de massa. Dem two folks is like de mornin'-glories on de ole Pritchard porch --always out de fust ting in de mornin'. Now I was a calc'latin' on havin' de dear lam' go wid me to pick pineapples. But no--off she strays, gaddin' after de wain hopes ob dis world. Why does de precious lam' sigh and pine for to go into de wicked world? De world? Fudge! De world is for de worldlings. We ain't dat kind. What's de good book say? "' When I can read my title clear To mansions in de sky.' Dat's de place for our hearts to lib in. 'We hab a house not made wid han's--eternal in de hebbens.'" Aunt Bel--who, when she lived in the world, had never derived from it such peace of mind as she had enjoyed in her long sequestration from it--was perfectly willing that the green remainder of her age should fade away in the same sunny isle where it was now turning into the withered leaf. She shrank from being plucked up and transplanted back into that rougher clime in which she had suffered all she ever knew of the frosts of life. Above all, she contemplated with alarm, and almost with rage, the possible irruption into the island of a boat's crew of rude and boisterous men. If Beaver had looked forward to a visit from the common crowd of spaniels, whelps, and mangy curs that constitute the world's race of dogs, he would have prepared himself to greet them with a growl of disdain, or a wheeze of high-bred scorn. In like manner, Jezebel stood ready at a moment's notice to sniff haughtily at the whole intrusive pack of the human race. Barbara, on the contrary, who had just met one of the world's inhabitants, had found thereby ...
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