[Old Creole Days by George Washington Cable]@TWC D-Link bookOld Creole Days CHAPTER XV 77/239
I thing you will go, _et_ I thing Miguel will go, _et_ Joe--everybody, I thing--_mais_, hof course, not if they not have been christen'.
Even I thing some niggers will go." "Jools," said the parson, stopping in his walk--"Jools, I _don't_ want to lose my niggah." "Yon will not loose him.
With Baptiste he _cannot_ ged loose." But Colossus's master was not re-assured. "Now," said he, still tarrying, "this is jest the way; had I of gone to church"-- "Posson Jone'," said Jules. "What ?" "I tell you.
We goin' to church!" "Will you ?" asked Jones, joyously. "_Allons_, come along," said Jules, taking his elbow. They walked down the Rue Chartres, passed several corners, and by and by turned into a cross street.
The parson stopped an instant as they were turning and looked back up the street. "W'at you lookin' ?" asked his companion. "I thought I saw Colossus," answered the parson, with an anxious face; "I reckon 'twa'n't him, though." And they went on. The street they now entered was a very quiet one.
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