I'm goin' right that way.
If you'll git right into my barge I'll fetch you there in ten minutes." There was enough in this reply, and the manner in which it was delivered, to have furnished the station idlers, in the ordinary course of events, with matter for gossip and discussion for a week.

Mr.Blount had not addressed a person as "sir" since he went to school.

But no one thought of this; all were too much overcome by the splendor of the Major's presence.
"Thank you," replied the Major.

"Thank you.

I am obliged to you, sir.
Augustus, you may place the baggage in this gentleman's conveyance." Augustus was an elderly negro, very black as to face and a trifle shabby as to clothes, but with a shadow of his master's gentility, like a reflected luster, pervading his person.