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Updated: June 2, 2025
"Don't you worrit no more about Depper," she said, "Strike me, you're the one that want seem' to now, Car'line." The slow tears oozed beneath Car'line's closed lids. "I kin fend for myself if Depper ain't put about," she said. When Depper returned, with the shades of night, from the harvest-field, he might hardly have known his own living-room.
Before she had quite emptied her glass the dance was called, the dancers formed in two lines, the music sounded, and the figure began. Then matters changed for Car'line. A tremor quickened itself to life in her, and her hand so shook that she could hardly set down her glass.
The raw wind of an early May evening was puffing in and out the curtains of the room where Naomi Holland lay dying. The air was moist and chill, but the sick woman would not have the window closed. "I can't get my breath if you shut everything up so tight," she said. "Whatever comes, I ain't going to be smothered to death, Car'line Holland."
Old Sarah for a while was silent, and then yielded: "'Yo' po' sick chile, yo' knows Sarah Angeline can't 'fuse yo' nuffin' when yo' mo' and mo' 'zembles my Mandy Car'line ebery bressed minit, lookin' so pleadin' in her ole black mudder's eyes just 'fo' she died!
From the child escaped troubled breaths and silently welling tears. 'Want some bread and butter, do 'ee? he said, with factitious hardness. 'Ye-e-s! 'Well, I daresay I can get 'ee a bit! Naturally, you must want some. And you, too, for that matter, Car'line. 'I do feel a little hungered. But I can keep it off, she murmured.
Mop Ollamoor, I reckon! said Hipcroft, gazing palely at them from the distance of the yard or two to which he had withdrawn with a start. Car'line gasped. 'But he's been gone away for years! she supplicated. 'And I never had a young man before! And I was so onlucky to be catched the first time, though some of the girls down there go on like anything! Ned remained in silence, pondering.
Even the generous hospitality of Colonel Kipp amiable under the influence of golden dreams even the smiles of the simpering Alvina, and the more brave coquetry of Car'line now become a decided admirer of my yellow buttons were not sufficient to preserve my spirits from ennui.
But that minx, Almiry, hed ben and let on abaout her own sarsy way er servin' on me, an' Car'line jest up an' said she warn't goan to hev annybuddy's leavin's; so daown I come ag'in. "Things was gettin' desper't by that time; for aunt was failin' rapid, an' the story hed leaked aout some way, so the hull taown was gigglin' over it.
Not to be detaining your honour too long I was in Ballynavogue this forenoon, and was just that is, Miss Car'line Flaherty was just Mr. Carv. Miss Caroline Flaherty! What in nature can she have to do with the business? Phil. Only axing me, sir, she was, to play the flageolets, which was the rason I was sitting at Flaherty's. Mr. Carv. Address yourself to the court, young man. Phil.
It then was proposed that the five take some other house, and abandon me to my fate. "To this old Sarah vigorously objected, and said: "'I'se nevah gwine to fo'sake dat po' sick white baby who 'minds me so powerful much of my own little Mandy Car'line just 'fo' she j'ined de angel band! "This settled that proposal.
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