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"No," said Clorinda, mysteriously; "it's one ob dem tings as is best not talked 'bout. I don't run and tell all I sees and hears." "Jis' confide in my buzzom," said Dolf, tenderly. "Men is so duberous, 'specially dem as brags 'bout der mean white blood, which comes out coppery any how," said Clorinda. "Yer knows I'se de most faithful and constance ob my sect," cried Dolf.
"Nebber you mind de parson," said Clo; "laws, I wouldn't wipe my ole shoes on him, 'sides it ed be something wuth while jis' to denounce our connubiolity to de hull company dis ebening." But Dolf flattered and persuaded until she consented to comply with his wishes.
He said dey ain't nobody kin save his own self can't do it by faith, can't do it by works, can't do it no way at all. Free grace is de on'y way, en dat don't come fum nobody but jis' de Lord; en he kin give it to anybody He please, saint or sinner he don't kyer. He do jis' as He's a mineter.
Of all the joys that brighten suffering earth What joy is welcomed like a new-born child? "Massa wants you for to come right along to him in de study, darlin', jis as soon as your ole mammy kin get you dressed," said Chloe, one morning to her nursling. "What for, mammy?" Elsie asked curiously, for she noticed an odd expression on her nurse's face.
Dah, now de preacher said it his own self, en it ain't no sin, 'ca'se white folks done it. DEY done it yes, DEY done it; en not on'y jis' common white folks nuther, but de biggest quality dey is in de whole bilin'. Oh, I's so glad I 'member 'bout dat!" She got lighthearted and happy, and went to the cradles, and spent what was left of the night "practicing."
It clouded up en 'uz pooty dark for a little while. So I clumb up en laid down on de planks. De men 'uz all 'way yonder in de middle, whah de lantern wuz. De river wuz a-risin', en dey wuz a good current; so I reck'n'd 'at by fo' in de mawnin' I'd be twenty-five mile down de river, en den I'd slip in jis b'fo' daylight en swim asho', en take to de woods on de Illinois side.
"I jis' want to see what dat ole parson'll say," he averred, though the truth was, Dolf had been so indiscreet in his protestations to Victoria that he was a little fearful of consequences if that high-spirited damsel learned the news without a little preparation.
Now what should he do but make out he'd got 'ligion, an' war called to preach. He had no more 'ligion dan my ole dorg. But he had money an' built a meetin' house, whar he could hole meeting, an' hab funerals; an' you know cullud folks is mighty great on funerals. Well dat jis' tuck wid de people, an' he got 'lected to de legislatur.
"Yes, missis," she repeated, with the firmness of a person who meant what she said, and was fully prepared to defend her opinion. "What's come over her?" asked Vic. "Dat's jis' it," returned Clo; "now you've hit it prezact yer might talk a week, Victy, and not come inter de pint agin."
Jim said he would "jis' 's soon have tobacker in his coffee;" and found so much fault with it, and with the work and bother of raising the mullen, and jews-harping the rats, and petting and flattering up the snakes and spiders and things, on top of all the other work he had to do on pens, and inscriptions, and journals, and things, which made it more trouble and worry and responsibility to be a prisoner than anything he ever undertook, that Tom most lost all patience with him; and said he was just loadened down with more gaudier chances than a prisoner ever had in the world to make a name for himself, and yet he didn't know enough to appreciate them, and they was just about wasted on him.
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