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"There's Brack now!" he exclaimed. "See, Bessie? That little man, with the eyeglasses. He's up to some mischief. I wonder what he's doing out this way?" When they arrived, Eleanor Mercer, her eyes showing that she was worried, was waiting for them on the porch. "Oh, I'm so glad you're here!" she exclaimed. "I'm so sorry if you were worried about me, Miss Eleanor," said Bessie, remorsefully.
Don't you 'spect brack man's got sum common sense, and can see as fur into a cane-brake as anybody else? A brack man's nebber a fool 'cept when he's coaxed to run away from a good master, sah! Better bleeb dat. "'But only to tink, sez he, 'ob bein' whipped like a hoss when you do anyting wrong, and all dat.
In cleanin' house time, now I have fairly begreched the ease and comfort of them Japanese housewives who jest take up their mat and sweep out, move their paper walls a little mebby and there it is done. No heavy, dirt-laden carpets to clean, no papered walls and ceilings to break their back over, no trumpery brickaty brack to take care of and dust and make life a burden.
"But if Zara was willing to go off that way, I believe it's because she thought she was doing the right thing," Bessie went on, determinedly. "Someone must have seen her and told her something she believed, though perhaps it wasn't true." "Of course!" said Jamieson, heartily, "That's what I've thought from the start, and don't you see who it probably was? Why, Brack!
And as the car in which they were sitting went through the station Bessie clutched Dolly's arm, and spoke in her ear. "Look!" she said. "There on the platform! Did you ever see those men before!" Dolly gave a startled cry as her eyes followed Bessie's pointing finger. "Mr. Holmes!" she exclaimed. "And that's that little lawyer, Mr. Brack. And the old man with the whiskers "
"You're mos' black ez my shoes; an' de Lord ain't er goin' ter pull all my hair off jes 'boutn you." "I gwine right down-sta'rs an' tell yer ma," said Mammy. "She don't 'low none o' you chil'en fur ter sass me, an' ter call me brack; she nuver done it herse'f, wan she wuz little.
"It's mah own brack se'f!" cried the woman, as daddy came hobbling forward to meet her just as though she were the finest company that had ever come to the Day house. "You couldn't be more welcome if you were a queen, Mammy Blanche," he cried. "You know ?" He halted, and his own countenance fell. The old woman clung tightly to his hand with both of hers.
In another minute I became aware that my suspicions were unjust. I had been wronging the man who stood before me. All at once his attitude changed. His uplifted arm fell by his side; the expression of fierce menace disappeared; and in as mild a tone as his rough voice was capable of giving utterance to, he said "Oh! you mass' brack man's friend! Dam! thought 'twar da cussed Yankee driber!"
De mas'r he stand and call, 'Run to de wood for hide! Yankee come, sell you to Cuba! run for hide! Ebry man he run, and, my God! run all toder way! "De brack sojer so presumptious, dey come right ashore, hold up dere head. Fus' ting I know, dere was a barn, ten tousand bushel rough rice, all in a blaze, den mas'r's great house, all cracklin' up de roof. Didn't I keer for see 'em blaze?
"No, missy, I neber forgets dem, and though dey brack as dar mammy, I lub dem as much as dat pure creter dar; and I takes dem in my arms, and press dem to my heart de same, but I rudder be called to part wid dem, dan dat such as she hab to gib up her chilen, for 'pears like I can bear it better, cause I's brack."
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