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And, went on Frances, to finish now that the subject was broached,
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I got those chickens right out the coop. Roxie says they are nice and fat. That Dominico now, how would it do to have it smothered?
human
You's gwine hab company to suppah?
gpt
Y--e--s!
human
An' yuh wants to hab smothered chicken an' floating island an' cake an' eberything else I'll ben' my po' back to cook?
gpt
Your smothered chicken is always so good!
human
Why don' yuh say so den, jes say yuh's gwine hab company to suppah an' be done wid it.
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Well, we are, laughed Frances,
human
Hm!
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Wondah who 'tis now? Susan's eyes, black and still as ink pools in her yellow, wrinkled face, looked dreamy as they often did when she thought of Frances. As long as she was blithe and content so was her faithful care-taker, who had nursed her father when Susan was a child of ten, and he was a bad infant. She had married and had her own cabin and her own children when fortune freed her. She had seen her
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and her children die, all of them, there in the cabin in the mountain-side, except one boy, Bill, and he had gone off to Baltimore; and she had been glad in her heart when
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Marse Robert