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Northcope has asked me to be his wife." "Asked you to be his wife! Oomph! Whut did you tell him?" "I didn't tell him anything. I was so ashamed I couldn't talk. I just ran away like a silly." "Oomph," said mammy again, "an' whut you gwine to tell him?" "Oh, I don't know. Don't you think he's a very nice young man, Mr. Northcope, mammy? And then his father's so nice." Mammy's face clouded.
He was in the wagonette when she and Celeste came out. The place was still and deserted, even Mr. Jonas gone, for which Alexina was grateful. Molly was on the back seat, and Celeste, gaunt and taciturn, started to mount beside her. Molly protested. "Not you, mammy; go in front. I want Malise not the big Malise, you know the little one."
I wish I wuz a washer; then you wouldn't have to give yo' clothes out to these triflin' huzzies whar rams a iron over yo' things like they wuz made uv iron too." "I suppose that you are getting along pretty well, Mammy," I remarked, irrelevantly. "Oh, I kain' complain.
"Who sees 'em?" repeated Mammy wrathfully, angry because of the doubt implied by his question and his face. "Who sees 'em? They've been seen by generations of them as is dead and gone. Who is you, I'd like to know, standin' up there a-mockin' at me so impident and a-askin' 'Who sees 'em?"
It was difficult to get Peter past the old thorn-tree view of the Harpeth Valley we had come through, and he wanted to get out and stay for ever at the milk-house; but I finally landed him in a Homeric daze up in front of the house, which stood with its hospitable old door wide open but deserted. "Sam! Byrd! Mammy!"
Whatever it was he did not say it, for the Phoenix interrupted him, and all breathed more freely as it spoke. 'I gather, it said, 'that you have some tidings of a fatal nature to communicate to our degraded black brothers who run to and fro for ever yonder. It pointed a claw at the cupboard, where the blackbeetles lived. 'Canary TALK, said the Lamb joyously; 'go and show mammy.
We had all expected personal chastisement, at the very least, but we were thrown into a greater degree of horror and dismay than could well be conceived; Mammy placed her spectacles in her pocket, collected her valuables, and put on her hat and things, to take passage for Ireland.
"I'll put the shutters up now, and leave the door ajar, and the gas lit for mother to see when she comes back; and if mother shouldn't come back to night, the little woman will sleep in my bed, won't she?" "Dolly's to be a good girl till mammy comes back," said the child, plaintively, and holding harder by Beppo's ear.
The next day after Bill had danced his hornpipe, old Mammy Otello, as they called her, came with her usual bowl of food, but on this occasion she brought a basket with various fruits besides. This she did for two or three days. One day, however, she came at an earlier hour, and made signs to Bill that he must come over to her house.
"Seems to me hit's time for you to be getting some new shirts, Mahs William," she said, one Sunday morning. Mammy touched me sorely there. A crisis was certainly impending in my lingerie. "Oh, I reckon not. You must have got hold of a bad one, Mammy." "I got hole uv all uv um what is out uv wash; and them gwine. The buttons is shackledy on all uv um, too.
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