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"An' bless de Lord, is it Miss Lizzie?" said the good-natured woman, as the sound of Lizzie Heartwell's voice fell upon her ear in the kindly spoken salutation. "An' w'at will you have to-day, chile?" "Some bananas, Maum Cinda two for me, and two for my friend here, Miss Bertha Levy."
What was said was done. She took possession of me as of a man that belonged to her, gave me her gloves to keep, her fan, her cinda, and her coif, and ordered me to go here or there, to do this or that, and I instantly obeyed her.
He soon took up with 'Cinda jest as though 'twas out o' spite. Anyhow, 'fore any of us knowed it, they'd gone over to Middletown an' got married. "'Cinda Stone was a right weakly sort o' critter. Of course Hopewell was good to her," pursued Aunt 'Mira. "Hopewell Drugg is as mild as dishwater, anyhow. He'd be perlite to a stray cat." Janice was interested she could not help being.
Here" and extending her slender white hand, Lizzie dropped the jingling pennies into the aged, wrinkled one that opened to receive them. "God bless you, chile. You neber forget His poor ones, de blind. God bless you!" "Good morning, Maum Cinda." "Good-by, young ladies, good-by."
To-morrow is my brother Isaac's confirmation day, and we must all be promptly at the synagogue at nine o'clock." "You shall know to-night, Bertha, and I will be with you, if possible. But here, before we part, let's stop and buy some bananas of old Maum Cinda. She is always so grateful for a fivepence dropped by a school-girl."
What was said was done. She took possession of me as of a man that belonged to her, gave me her gloves to keep, her fan, her cinda, and her coif, and ordered me to go here or there, to do this or that, and I instantly obeyed her.
"Oh! yes, Miss Bertha," replied the woman, courtesying, "an' maybe I have seen Miss Bertha, but it's the sweet voice of Miss Lizzie that the old blind woman remembers" handing the bananas across the wide board that protected her tempting wares from public incursions. "You flatter me, Maum Cinda; but I hope the rainy day has not interfered much with your trade.
"Lawsy! he ain't what you'd call old no," said Aunt 'Mira. "Now, let me see; he married 'Cinda Stone when he warn't yit thirty. There was some talk of him an' 'Rill Scattergood bein' sweet on each other onc't; but that was twenty year ago, I do b'lieve. "Howsomever, if there was anythin' betwixt Hopewell and 'Rill, I reckon her mother broke up the match.
She was a very stubborn woman, and very stern; more so than my own mother. But Mrs. Drugg had to give in to him about the violin, for she needed Hopewell to run the store for her. They had little other means. "But she made him marry 'Cinda Stone," added 'Rill. "Poor 'Cinda! she was never happy. Not that Hopewell did not treat her well.
And then Well, 'Cinda Stone was lef all alone, an' she lived right back o' Drugg's store, an' her father had owed Drugg a power of money 'fore he died a big store bill, ye see. Hopewell Drugg is as soft as butter; mebbe he loved 'Cinda Stone; anyhow he merried her after he'd got the mitten from Amarilla. Huh! ye can't never tell the whys and wherefores of sech things not re'lly."
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