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2390	Well might Braddock exclaim with his last breath:"Who would have thought it?
3073	117 Does the bold savage color of this picture affright us?
3073	And the windowpanes?
3073	And was it any wonder that they now doubted the love the parent State professed to feel for them?
3073	As for the puerile threat of blood, had their quality really so soon become obliterated from the memory of North Carolina?
3073	Cornstalk, in irony, demanded of them; No?
3073	He may have put the question to them in the biblical words, Whither shall I flee?
3073	He sees ahead-- the days of his great explorations and warfare, the discovery of Kentucky?
3073	If Daniel be beside her, what does she see when she looks at him?
3073	Or were these, the ethical tenets of almost all uncorrupted primitive tribes, transmitted from the Indian strain and association?
3073	Shall we first kill all our women and children and then 126 fight till we ourselves are slain?
3073	Surrender to those damned banditti?
3073	What of the man?
3073	Who is there to mourn for Logan?
3073	Who shall venture to say it is not better worth preserving than many a classic?
3073	Would we veil it?
35133	Ay, ay-- any news?
35133	But the battle- ground-- where is that sir?
35133	By St. Patrick jintilmen-- honie, mounseers, woulee voo my asy riding coach?
35133	Caballeros, voulez vous tomer mé carriage?
35133	Did you find them on the battle- ground, garçon?
35133	Do you attend the_ Theatre d''Orleans_ to night?
35133	I see it--"Is that it captain-- the little hump?"
35133	Is the land in sight, Captain?
35133	What craft do you call that?
35133	What ship''s that?
35133	What ship''s that?
35133	What? 35133 Where away?"
35133	Where bound?
35133	Where is it?
35133	Where-- where?
35133	Why did they leave the city?
35133	Why do you think so, my man?
35133	Wooly woo querie to ride sir?
35133	--"which way?"
35133	And so astonished was I at such a panic, that I said to a retiring soldier,"have we or the Americans attacked?"
35133	On my replying in the negative to his inquiry,"If I had visited the rail- way?"
35133	We inquired"if the regiment was quartered here?"
35133	he replied, with genuine Irish brogue,"Which barracks, jintlemen?"
35156	Ben, how did you like the sermon to- day?
35156	Ben, why do you drink whiskey?
35156	Did you drive your master''s carriage?
35156	For what service in particular did you want to buy?
35156	For what, Peter?
35156	Have you a wife?
35156	How old are you, George?
35156	If the south are so safe, it may be asked why are they so sensitive on this subject? 35156 Let me see your teeth-- your tongue-- open your hands-- roll up your sleeves-- have you a good appetite?
35156	Shade of Achilles,you exclaim,"are the Elysü Campi of thy ghostly wanderings discovered in a Mississippian forest?"
35156	To whom do you belong?
35156	What ails you, Peter?
35156	What can you do with so much tobacco?
35156	What do you ask for this boy, sir?
35156	Where are you going?
35156	Where is she, George?
35156	Where were you raised?
35156	Who is that old gentleman?
35156	Who, Tom?
35156	Whom do you belong to?
35156	Why are you at the trouble and expense of having high- post bedsteads for your negroes?
35156	Will you ride with me into the country?
35156	You know dat nigger, they gwine to sell, George?
35156	You know who you''master be-- whar he live?
35156	And are they not their tombs?
35156	And where is the southern gentleman that ever dressed_ fashionably_?
35156	Are not these the only evidences that they ever have been-- and are they not the receptacles of their national remains?
35156	Bill-- dat you in ball and chain?"
35156	But the natural inquiry of the stranger is,"What is its use?"
35156	But where are they now?
35156	But-- beg pardon, master-- but-- if master would be so good as buy Jane--""Who is Jane?"
35156	Do such men seek protection or apprehend danger from an inferior number of unarmed, ignorant and enslaved negroes?
35156	Do such men"pine in bondage"and"sigh for freedom?"
35156	Has it been rolling onward for centuries, without any visible effects?
35156	Have those who advocate immediate and unconditional emancipation weighed well these several branches of inquiry on this momentous subject?
35156	How much you tink he go for?"
35156	I asked another,"why he swore?"
35156	If such is the case, what lessons do the wars and experience of Europe teach us?
35156	Ladies are ladies all the world over; and where is the place in which they do not love"to shop?"
35156	Maine adjoins Canada; yet who gives Major Downing''s fellow- countrymen the credit of speaking French in their daily transactions?
35156	Now where is this great column of earth deposited?
35156	One of these negroes, after a long course of drilling, was asked,"In whose image were you made?"
35156	The question is naturally suggested to the mind, while gazing upon the huge pile,"For what was it constructed?"
35156	The sons are the founders of these infant emporiums, but the daughters stay at home in a state of single blessedness-- blessings(?)
35156	Was my first ancestor created a slave?"
35156	Was there ever a fancy store that ladies were not hovering near?
35156	Will not our sceptical countrymen regard this as an anomaly in philanthropy?
35156	Would you like to examine my lot of boys?
35156	are you good tempered?"
35156	she exclaimed, in the utmost consternation,"Is to- day Sunday, sir?"
35156	to whom the letter is addressed,"if the cotton plant has ever been tried in Mississippi?
35156	what now?"
15872	''Why do you come to me?'' 15872 And will soon be present, I presume?"
15872	Are you not afraid thus to speak-- is there nothing too holy to be profanely assaulted?
15872	Are you really going to leave us, and so soon? 15872 By our grandfather, I suppose, Alice?"
15872	Can Mr. Randolph be in earnest?
15872	Did he tell you his Indian ghost story?
15872	Did you ever get it?
15872	Do you know you are on the graves of a great nation?
15872	Do you remember my promise made here?
15872	Do you remember our first meeting?
15872	Have I fulfilled it? 15872 I am sorry you tell me so; wo n''t you be sorry, Miss Alice?"
15872	I mus shake his hand; but what hab you done wid your beard, your hair, and your huntin- shirt?
15872	I shall be sure to come,said the young man,"and suppose I bring with me these ladies?"
15872	I shall not complain,replied the astonished young man;"but will you ride again to- morrow?"
15872	Is old papa Jack and Bellile living?
15872	Is this,thought he,"a delicate invitation to save my feelings, and is the latter clause meant as a hint that they do not want me?
15872	Kind sir, tell me, have you no superstitions? 15872 Landlord,"said the Judge,"will you give us your attention?"
15872	May I inquire, Colonel Dooly, what use you have for a gum in the matter we have met to settle?
15872	May I join you in your walk home, miss?
15872	Miss Alice, do you frequently visit Uncle Toney?
15872	Miss Alice--(will you allow me this familiarity?)
15872	So, my philosopher, you believe, whatever lifts the mind to worship God is the true faith?
15872	Thar ai n''t? 15872 The ladies have retired-- shall we imitate their example, sir?
15872	Uncle Toney, how old are you?
15872	Uncle Toney, who was that wicked old man?
15872	Well, by G--, sir, is my motion in order to- day? 15872 What are you laughing at, you whelp?"
15872	What did that d----d black- muzzled whelp say?
15872	What in the h--- does he mean by that?
15872	What is your will, Judge Dooly?
15872	What would become of the hospital?
15872	Where is he from? 15872 Who is Uncle Toney?
15872	Why do not her brothers- in- law inquire into this? 15872 Why, husband,"asked mother,"how did you get so wet?"
15872	Why, what do you mean?
15872	You ask me if I thought, or think, he ever deserted the Republican party in heart? 15872 You been mity sick, here, young massa, did n''t Miss Alice be good to you?
15872	You no find dis country good like yourn, young massa?
15872	''Then, can I get a little butter- milk?''
15872	( or maybe you''ll want me to call it a parliament, sir?)
15872	Ai n''t that thar hell- fired letter to me, sir-- a senator, sir, representing three parishes, sir-- before this House?
15872	And is it so with all?
15872	Answer me; were not these the true men in that day?
15872	Are not these incompatible with the stern and towering traits essential to such a character as was Washington''s?
15872	Are these too bright, too pure for time?
15872	Are we not men, and manly?
15872	Are you a wizzard that you have so drawn me on?
15872	But what is to be done with the negro?
15872	But where is that gentle, sweet, affectionate mother?
15872	But who shall determine this lot?
15872	But why the fear?
15872	But you are not my father confessor-- then why do I talk to you as to one long known?
15872	But, what could they do?
15872	Can any one enumerate an instance where evil grew out of the early association of the sexes at school?
15872	Can it be that these historians only wrote romances?
15872	Can it be, simply to propagate his species, and perish?
15872	Come, Sue, ca n''t you give the gentleman some music?
15872	Could any but a god effect so much?
15872	Could children of Anglo- Norman blood be so restrained?
15872	Could you, in the presence of Almighty God-- He who knows the inmost thoughts-- justify your work of to- day?
15872	Cousin, does he not astonish you?"
15872	D--- it, do n''t you see it is a threat, sirs!--a threat to''sassinate me?
15872	Dare I speak?
15872	Death and corruption do their work, and life returns no more, and death is eternal, and the soul-- answer ye dumb graves-- did the soul come here?
15872	Did he give you any of his stories?
15872	Did the Great Spirit tell him to do this?
15872	Did your sun come to you with fire in her hand and kindle it in your heart?
15872	Disembodied, is she, as God, pervading all, and knowing all?
15872	Do not the gentler virtues of our nature ever ripen with time?
15872	Do the dead know?
15872	Do they stir the romance of your nature as that of my baby sister?"
15872	Do we feel as men?
15872	Do you defy it?
15872	Do you not see it in their action in this matter?
15872	Do you remember who were the brave and generous, kind and truthful among them?
15872	Do you suppose I can afford to risk my leg of flesh and bone against Tate''s wooden one?
15872	Do you think of this?
15872	Do you understand me?
15872	Do you wonder, sir, that I seem eccentric?
15872	Does any man suppose, if Mr. Calhoun had succeeded to the Presidency, that he would have commenced or continued this agitation?
15872	Does she, with that devotion of heart which was so much hers in time, still love and protect me?
15872	Grymes?"
15872	Has it not been realized in the years of the recent intestine war?
15872	Has nothing ever occurred to you, your reason could not account for?
15872	Has that brief interview left an impression upon those two young hearts to endure beyond a day?
15872	Hast thou gone with me through my long pilgrimage of time?
15872	Have I done mine?"
15872	Have no predictions, to be revealed in the coming future, come to you as foretold?"
15872	Have you bought the home of our fathers from these red men?
15872	Have you to- day done unto this man as you would he should do unto you?
15872	Have you, as had the Natchez, a holy fire which is never extinguished in your heart?
15872	He gave him His word in a book: do you find it there?
15872	He inquires of the Indian inhabitant he is expelling from the country, Who was the architect of these, and what their signification?
15872	He knew she was more than anxious for a home where she was mistress, and he must prepare it-- but how, or where?
15872	He, their gallant, was respectfully silent, when Alice said, without lifting her eyes:"I wonder if La Salle ever stood here?
15872	How could your words be so soft and gentle in the wild costume of the murderous savage?
15872	How do we know that their spirits are not here by us now?
15872	How many brilliant examples of this fatal fact does memory call up from the untimely grave?
15872	How often that word is thoughtlessly spoken?
15872	How quiet is the grave?
15872	How will it be with you?
15872	I have been here before, sir; and did n''t I move its adoption yesterday, sir?
15872	I hear dat from ebery one ob my young misses, and where is dey now?
15872	I hope you do not find your stay disagreeable in this house?"
15872	I know my cousin has whispered something to you of me; my situation, my nature-- is it not so?"
15872	I learned you at the plucking of that arrow from the cotton bale-- in your strange, wild garb; but never mind-- what were you going to say?"
15872	I promised; when he extended his hand, and, grasping mine, asked:''Is this our last parting, or shall I see you to- morrow?''
15872	I want to know, by the eternal gods, if a senator in this house-- this here body-- is to be threatened in this here way?
15872	I wonder how many''s history I am writing now?
15872	If I have kept thy counsels, and walked by their wisdom, hast thou approved, my mother?
15872	If for him there is not a future, why were the instincts of his nature given?
15872	If in sincerity we invoke God''s mercy, can the means that prompt the heart''s devotion, reliance, and love, be wrong?
15872	If these results have followed the institution of African slavery, can it be inhuman and sinful?
15872	If they worship God in sincerity, you say that is all?"
15872	If this is all he is ever to know, does this complete a destiny for use?
15872	If you have not, will they not hunt us away again, as you have?
15872	In what battle were they ever defeated?
15872	Is it instinctive?
15872	Is it maidenly that I should?
15872	Is it not all a mystery-- strange, strange, incomprehensible, and unnatural?
15872	Is it not as reasonable to believe we lived before our birth into this, as to hope we shall live after death in another world?
15872	Is it not rather an evidence that the Creator so designed?
15872	Is it not strange that woman will confide to the strange man, what she will not to the kindred woman?
15872	Is it that youth has no apprehensions, and we enjoy its anticipations and its present without alloy?
15872	Is it the alchemist who always turns the sweets of youth to the sours of age?
15872	Is it the blood, the rearing, or the religion of these people which makes them what they are?
15872	Is it the leaves and trees, or sheaves Of yellow, ripened grain, Which wake to me, in memory, My boyhood''s days again?
15872	Is it the mind which remembers, and is the mind the soul?
15872	Is it this which makes such models of children and Christians in the educated Creole population of Louisiana?
15872	Is not his measure full?
15872	Is not this an attribute of greatness-- to be natural?
15872	Is not this an honest confession?
15872	Is she permitted, in her new being, to come at will, and breathe to my mind holy thoughts and holy feelings?
15872	Is she up among these gems of heaven?
15872	Is she yonder in the mighty Jupiter, looking down, and smiling at me?
15872	Is the belief alone the Indian''s?
15872	Is the flame first kindled burning still?
15872	Is there one, whose years have brought increase of happiness, and who has lived on without a sorrow?
15872	Is this cruel and sinful-- or the silent, mysterious operation of the laws of nature?
15872	Is this hope the instinct of the coming, or does it grow from the baser instinct of love for the miserable life we have?
15872	Is this natural?
15872	Is this natural?
15872	It is easy to ask, but who shall answer?
15872	It said:"What did you leave me for?
15872	Jefferson?"
15872	Lamar, and his brother Mirabeau B. Lamar, Eugenius Nesbit, Walter T. Colquitt, and Eli S. Shorter?
15872	Mathews, turning upon his back, asked,"To whom do I owe my life?"
15872	May be you bring de ole man more dan one dar?"
15872	Mr. Grymes, vat am I to do?"
15872	Must the surviving spirit have Its memories of time and grief?
15872	My wonder was, whence come all these people?
15872	Now, wa''n''t that great?"
15872	Order, sir; is my motion in order, sir?"
15872	Senators?
15872	Shall I, when purified by death, go to her?
15872	Shall it forget the all of time, When time''s with all her uses gone, And be a babe in that new clime?
15872	Shall we have your company?
15872	Shall we return?
15872	She gazed intently; could it be?
15872	Sheriff?"
15872	Should he, like this man, come to love the solitude and silence of the wilderness, and find companionship only with his traps and guns?
15872	The ladies were in their night- clothes; but what will not woman do to aid the distressed, especially in the hour of peril?
15872	The work was begun and was rapidly progressing; but now, when and by whom will this great, glorious garden be made?
15872	Then the father of bride stepped up to the side of his daughter, when the groom said to the bride:"Wilt thou have me for thy husband?"
15872	Then what is due from me to you?
15872	Then what is life to age?
15872	Then why fear?
15872	Then why should he fear?
15872	Then, is time his all?
15872	There, now I am done-- don''t you think me very foolish?"
15872	These means were to be devised, by whom?
15872	They are but earth now-- and why am I here?
15872	This is her last day; and to how many countless thousands is it the last day of life?
15872	To him death is nothing: the brave defy death-- the good fear it not; then why should he fear?
15872	To trace in the planetary system divine wisdom, and divine power; to see and know the same in the mite which floats in the sunbeam?
15872	Was he as happy?
15872	Was it not natural?
15872	Was not this worship pure?
15872	Was that what General Jackson fit the battle of New Orleans for, down yonder in old Chemut''s field?
15872	Was the element of fire and the material for clothing given for any but man''s use?
15872	We sat together long hours, and talked of the past-- alternately, as their memories floated up, asking each other,"Where is this one?
15872	Well, sir, what order shall I take?
15872	Were you not surprised to see that I could write?"
15872	What are they?
15872	What are we to do with missions?
15872	What chase was ever unsuccessful over which they presided?
15872	What do you do with this case, gentlemen?"
15872	What has Burr left?
15872	What has he not seen?
15872	What is it to- day?
15872	What is to be the consequence?
15872	What is your faith?"
15872	What was his design as manifested in his nature?
15872	When did a father rob his children of their homes?
15872	When did a father wash his hands in his children''s blood?
15872	When they had approached within ten paces, Brashear stopped and said,"Are you ready?"
15872	When were they known to be worn out with fatigue-- with hardship, hunger or thirst, heat or cold, either on land or water?
15872	Where is he going?"
15872	Where is the provision for him in the Bible?
15872	Who can count the number of scalps which they brought from distant expeditions?
15872	Who can resist him then?
15872	Who can say it is not the true faith?"
15872	Who can tell what to- morrow may bring forth?
15872	Who deserves it more?
15872	Who ever could stem as they the rushing current of the Father of rivers?
15872	Who has a friend on whom he can rely, and who will not, to gratify his own ambition, sacrifice him?
15872	Who knows, except the dead?
15872	Who says it is mean to love the land, to keep in our hearts these graves, as we keep the Great Spirit?
15872	Who that has lived seventy years will not attest this from his own life''s experience?
15872	Why did he leave his own and come to take the red man''s?
15872	Why have you cut your hair and beard?
15872	Why is it deemed that there shall be no communication between the living and the dead?
15872	Why is my summons delayed so long?
15872	Why is this so?
15872	Why she not come wid you?
15872	Why the power to learn so much?
15872	Why this indiscretion?"
15872	Why this question, which implies a doubt of the goodness of God?
15872	Why?
15872	Will a century hence find one of the red race upon this continent?
15872	Will he ever forget the speaking of the beaming features of that beautiful creature, when she lifted her head and looked into his face?
15872	Will her heart ask:"Shall I ever meet him again?"
15872	Will she dream of the dark beard, curled and flowing-- of the darker eye which looked and spoke?
15872	Would the wild energies of these bow to such control, or yield such obedience from restraint or love?
15872	You are gentle and kind, are you not?
15872	You are not yet strong, and your weakness I have made weaker, because I have disturbed the fountain of your heart and brought up painful memories?"
15872	You not want somebody to turn de squirrel for you?
15872	You see it so with the white man; shall we not learn from him, and be like him?"
15872	You tell me the traditions of the people who worshipped here say that this was a cardinal law unto them?"
15872	and did it stretch on to contemplate the ruin and desolation which overspreads it now?
15872	and do the memories of time die with time?
15872	and do you recall their after lives?
15872	and is not this insult to manliness, and a vile mockery to the feelings of men?
15872	and shall this hope become a reality, and endure forever?
15872	and this?"
15872	and was all this grand creation of the earth, and all things therein, made to subserve him for so mean a purpose?
15872	and was n''t I laughed out of the house, sir?
15872	and will the wild story of the western wilderness come in the silent darkness of her chamber, and make her nestle closer to her pillow?
15872	asked her eyes; and he looked:"Who are you; and where is your home, beautiful being, so strangely and so unexpectedly met?"
15872	how will it be with you?
15872	if so, for what?
15872	is this reality, or am I dreaming?"
15872	or an acquired faculty?
15872	or does its_ all_ belong to love and joy when life and the world is new?
15872	or have you taken it?
15872	or is here the end of all; here, this little tenement?
15872	or is it the instinct of race, the consequence of a purer and more sublimated nature from the blue blood of the exalted upon earth?
15872	or is the soul independent of the mind, surviving the mind''s extinction?
15872	or went it with life to the great first cause?
15872	or, Do these pursue beyond the grave?
15872	or, shall this accursed rabidness be purged away with death, and he become a tone in accord with inanimate things?
15872	sa._?"
15872	said I,''are you sure-- very sure?''
15872	said he,"Alick, not gone yet?
15872	said he,"you have found this old hermit, have you?
15872	see you into my heart, here by your gravestone, to- night?
15872	shall the heathen go to heaven?
15872	that is it, is it?
15872	that you bid us take it from you, and go back, and make a new home where the fathers of our fathers sleep in death?
15872	the grave, the secrets of the grave, are they hidden there for ages, or shall they survive as treasures for eternity?
15872	the heart, the heart-- what are all its joys of youth, and all its griefs of age?
15872	what of this?
15872	what would I not give to see him again?''"
15872	why doffed the prairie chieftain''s robes of state and come forth a plain man?