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His naked foot had trodden on a gritty pebble, small but sharp. Someone had flung a handful of gravel at the window. He picked his way cautiously across the floor, and looked out. . . . In the moonlit roadway, right beneath, a girl Fancy Tabb was dancing a fandango, the while in her lifted hand she waved a white parcel. "Ah, there you be!" she hailed, catching sight of him. "I've found 'em!"
It was a quarter of a century since "The Origin of Species" had changed the course of the world's thought, yet it had never reached them. To be sure, there was an old gentleman in Tabb Street whose title, "the professor," had been conferred in public recognition of peaceful pursuits; but since he never went to church, his learning was chiefly effective when used to point a moral from the pulpit.
She laid a finger on her lip. "Sh! I've got 'em." "Got what?" "Servants for 'ee. They're inside." She pointed back in to the passage mysteriously. "Who's this child?" demanded Captain 'Bias. "She's er a young friend o' mine " began Captain Cai. But Fancy interrupted him, dropping a slight curtsey, and addressing his friend straight. "My name's Fancy Tabb, sir.
J. P. Tabb owned twelve thousand acres of land, and had called himself master of one hundred and sixty slaves; now all had left him. Sunday, May 3d, was a beautiful Sabbath. In the morning I attended service at the school-house, conducted by a Baptist minister, who examined nine new converts. Among them was a little girl, Susan Monroe, eight years old.
John Simpkins, the present agent, can put you in the way of visiting the island, and you might carry my sweet daughter, Tabb, over and give her a surf bath. But do not let the mosquitoes annoy her. Give her much love from me. I am writing in Mildred's room, who is very grateful for your interest in her behalf. She is too weak to speak. I hope Rob had a pleasant trip. Tell me Custis's plans.
It will be advantageous to communicate with each other, as well as a pleasure. I suppose Tabb has not returned to the White House yet. I am delighted to hear that she and her boy are so well. They will make everything on the Pamunkey shine. We are all as usual. One of them was since United States Minister a the Court of St. He will return to Baltimore Monday.
Tabb and Miss Hoogencamp, the two middle-aged gossips from Scranton, Pa. out of Mr. and Mrs. Biggle, an indurated head-bookkeeper and his prim and censorious wife out of old Major Halkit, a retired business man, who, having once sold a few shares on commission, wrote for circulars of every stock company that was started, and tried to induce every one to invest who would listen to him?
Compton that my daughter Tabb has returned to the White House in improved health, which I am very glad of. I hope that you will soon be able to bring her up to see us. Do not wait until the weather becomes too cold. Our mountain atmosphere in winter is very harsh. So far, the weather has been delightful. Your cousin Edward left us last Thursday evening on his way to see you.
I've talked it over with 'Bias, and he allows we should advertise for a single housekeeper; a staid honest woman to look after the pair of us with maybe a trifle of extra help. That gel, for instance, as waited table " "Tabb's child?" "Is that her name?" "She was christened Fancy Fancy Tabb her parents being a brace o' fools. Ay, she's a nonesuch, is Tabb's child."
"Seems an odd way " began Captain Cai, after pondering for a moment, but broke off, for the hand-maiden stood already on the threshold. "Fancy Tabb," commanded the chandler, "step fore, here, into the light." The child obeyed. "You see this gentleman?" "Yes, master."
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