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Put them out there on the table." The invalid, sitting up in bed, drew a purse from behind his pillow and tossed her a large price. She tittered, courtesied and received the money. "Well, well, Mawse Chawlie, 'f you ain' de funni'st gen'leman I knows, to be sho!" "Have you seen Joseph Frowenfeld to-day?" he asked. "He, he, he!
"Now, you old hag," cried the sick man, his weak, husky voice trembling with passion, "you know you're telling me a lie." "No, Mawse Chawlie," she protested with a coward's frown, "I swah I tellin' you de God's trufe!" "Hand me my clothes off that chair." "Oh! but, Mawse Chawlie " The little doctor cursed her. She did as she was bid, and made as if to leave the room. "Don't you go away."
"Well, now, Mawse Chawlie, I gwan t' ass you a riddle. If dat is so, den fo' w'y I yeh folks bragg'n 'bout de 'stayt o' s'iety in Eu'ope'?" The mincing drollery with which she used this fine phrase brought another peal of laughter. Nobody tried to guess. "I gwan tell you," said the marchande; "'t is becyaze dey got a 'fixed wuckin' class." She sputtered and giggled with the general ha, ha.
"But Mawse Chawlie, you' undress' he, he!" She was really abashed and half frightened. "I know that; and you have got to help me put my clothes on." "You gwan kill yo'se'f, Mawse Chawlie," she said, handling a garment. "Hold your black tongue." She dressed him hastily, and he went down the stairs of his lodging-house and out into the street. Clemence went in search of her master.
"What is that you say?" he demanded, with mock ferocity. "You charge white people with lying?" "Oh, sakes, Mawse Chawlie, no! De people don't mek up dat ah; de debble pass it on 'em. Don' you know de debble ah de grett cyount'-feiteh?
"Oh," said some one at Doctor Keene's side, disposed to quiz, "you niggers don't know when you are happy." "Dass so, Mawse c'est vrai, oui!" she answered quickly: "we donno no mo'n white folks!" The laugh was against him. "Mawse Chawlie," she said again, "w'a's dis I yeh 'bout dat Eu'ope country? 's dat true de niggas is all free in Eu'ope!" Doctor Keene replied that something like that was true.
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