excerpts from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Hurston
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excerpts from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Hurtson:
..."Whut's de matter, sugar? You ain't none too spry dis mornin'"
"Oh, nothin' much, Ah reckon. Ah come to get a lil information from you."
The old woman looked amazed, then gave a big clatter of laughter. "Don't tell me you done got knocked up already, less see - dis Saturday [you will have been married] two month and two weeks.
"No'm, Ah don't think so anyhow." Janie blushed a little.
"You ain't got nothin' to be shamed of, honey, youse uh married 'oman. You got yo' lawful husband same as Mis' Washburn [the rich, white slave-owner] or anybody else!"
"Ah'm all right dat way. Ah know 'tain't nothin' dere."
"You and Logan [your husband] been fussin'? Lawd, Ah know dat grass-gut, liver-lipted nigger ain't done took and beat mah baby already! Ah'll take a stick and salivate 'im!"
"No'm, he ain't even talked 'bout hittin' me. He says he never mean to lay de weight uh his hand on me in malice. He chops all de wood he think Ah wants and den he totes it inside de kitchin for me. Keeps both water buckets full."
"Humph! don't 'spect all dat tuh keep up. He ain't kissin' yo' mouf when he carry on over yuh lak dat. He's kissin' yo' foot and 'tain't in uh man tuh kis foot long. Mouf kissin' is on uh equal and dat's natural but when dey got to bow down tuh love, dey soon straightens up."
- fallen
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