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Aunt Phillis’s Cabin

CHAPTER XX
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"Have you any more orders to give, sir?
for as I am to be up mighty early in the morning, I was thinking of going to bed when you are done with me." "Nothing more," said Mr.Weston; and Mark retired.
"Mark," continued Mr.Weston, "has the greatest propensity for using hard words.

His _receased_ means deceased.

He was excessively angry with Bacchus the other day for interfering with him about the horses.

'Nobody,' said he, 'can stand that old fellow's airs.

He's got so full of tomposity, that he makes himself disagreeable to everybody.' By _tom_posity, I suppose you all know he meant pomposity.


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