"Don't you know your duty better than to be interfering in the concerns of these people?
I am excessively mortified.

What will this gentleman think of me ?" "Nothin', master," said Bacchus.

"Don't be oneasy.

I told him I come to ax him a favor on my own 'sponsibility, and that you didn't know nothin' about it.

Well, he axed me if I wanted a chaw of tobacco.