He don' mix much in sassiety till de bank settlements bin gone done.

Skuse me, sah!--but you don' happen to know when dat is?
It would be a pow'ful heap off de Kernel's mind if it was done.

Bein' a high and mighty man in committees up dah in Sacramento, sah, I didn't know but what yo' might know as it might come befo' yo'." "I'll see about it," said Paul, with an odd, abstracted smile.
"Shampoo dis mornen', sah ?" "Nothing more in this line," said Paul, rising from his chair, "but something more, perhaps, in the line of your other duties.

You're a good barber for the public, George, and I don't take back what I said about your future; but JUST NOW I think the colonel wants all your service.

He's not at all well.