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So in order to be perfectly safe, she deemed it best to deceive her mistress. "Tell your Master Hesden I wish to see him immediately, Maggie," said Mrs. Le Moyne, imperiously. "Yes'm," said the girl, as she left the room to perform her errand.
It was like something had been done to him that was I don't know what. I never saw anybody look like he did. He looked so queer. It was like you'd " She called down the hall, "George!" "Yes'm?" "Were you up in Mr. Bibbs's room just now?" "Yes'm. He ring bell; tole me make him fiah in his grate. I done buil' him nice fiah. I reckon he ain' feelin' so well. Yes'm." He departed.
Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning. Said she: "Tom, it was middling warm in school, warn't it?" "Yes'm." "Powerful warm, warn't it?" "Yes'm." "Didn't you want to go in a-swimming, Tom?"
Then, with that deep self-satisfaction which predominated in my soul, even over its appreciation of the novel and amusing, I donned my seal-brown cloak, and stepping out of the door, gathered up my skirts, and smiled at Mr. Lovell with a pair of seal-brown eyes, and was not surprised to hear him ejaculate, coughing slightly; "Ahem! I think so, certainly, yes'm, I think so; I do."
"Yes'm, I was born in slavery times in Calhoun County, Mississippi. "Bill Armstrong was my owner. He's been dead a long time. "My folks stayed on there a good while. "Pa said they was good to him but they wasn't good to my ma. I heered pa say they beat her till she died. I don't remember a thing 'bout my ma. "I heered 'em talk 'bout the Ku Klux.
She looked very neat and prim, and, as Percy had predicted, carried her head higher than ever. "I suppose," said aunt Eastman, "you will have a great many wonderful things to tell us, Dotty, for I am sure you travelled with your eyes open." "Yes'm; I hardly ever went to sleep in the cars. But when you said 'eyes, auntie, it made me think of the blind children. We went to the 'Sylum to see them."
"Yes, ma'am." "How old were you when you married?" "Fifteen." "How old was your husband?" "Eighteen." "Did you work in the fields when you were a child?" "Oh, yes'm, I picked and I chopped." "Have you worked in the fields every year?" "I do in pickin' and choppin' times." "And you do the housework? "There ain't no one else to do it." "And the sewing?" "Yes, ma'am.
If you ladies could climb up one o' them big pines, you'd see the line of forts and trenches in a half-moon from the Chain Bridge at Georgetown to Alexandria, and you'd see the seminary in its pretty park, and, belike, Gineral McClellan in the chapel cupola, a-spying through his spy-glass what deviltry them rebel batteries is hatching on the hill over yonder." "Are the rebels there?" "Yes'm.
"My name's Miller, Skiff Miller. I just thought I'd s'prise her." "You are on the right track then. Only you've come by the foot-path." Madge stood up to direct him, pointing up the canyon a quarter of a mile. "You see that blasted redwood? Take the little trail turning off to the right. It's the short cut to her house. You can't miss it." "Yes'm, thank you, ma'am," he said.
"Thank you, Thankful," he said, earnestly. "Thank you for sayin' that. That's the way to talk to me. I know I'm an old fool, but I won't be any more, if I can help it. Make it harder for you? I guess not!" "Obed, I'm so sorry." "Sho! sho! You needn't be. . . . I'm all right. I've been dreamin' foolish dreams, like a young feller after a church picnic dinner, but I'm awake now. Yes'm, I'm awake.
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