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Legree, like many other planters, had but one form of ambition, to have in the heaviest crop of the season, and he had several bets on this very present season pending in the next town. Cassy, therefore, with woman's tact, touched the only string that could be made to vibrate. "Well, I'll let him off at what he's got," said Legree; "but he shall beg my pardon, and promise better fashions."
Lennox brought him home and sent for his own physician. He's a dear." "Who is?" Paliser asked. "The physician?" But now a waiter was upon them with a bottle which he produced with a pop! Dishes followed to which Cassy permitted the man to help her. Her swallow of anything became large spoonfuls of rich blackness and the tenderness of savorous flesh.
"If it wasn't for you, child," she said, looking at Emmeline, "I'd go out to them; and I'd thank any one of them that would shoot me down; for what use will freedom be to me? Can it give me back my children, or make me what I used to be?" Emmeline, in her child-like simplicity, was half afraid of the dark moods of Cassy. She looked perplexed, but made no answer.
Cassy drew back; and, clasping her hands, looked upward, and said, "O, great Almighty God! we are all sinners; but what have we done, more than all the rest of the world, that we should be treated so?" There was a terrible earnestness in her face and voice, as she spoke.
She did not want him, never had wanted him, never could. "May I have it?" Paliser took the glass. Save for subsiding bubbles, and the bogus water, there was nothing there. "Will you take mine? I have not touched it." Cassy took it from him, drank it, drank it all. Her thoughts raced on. She was aware of that, though with what they were racing she could not tell.
Ah, my good sir, you'll have to try the race again and again, the game isn't there." "O, don't speak a word!" said Emmeline; "what if they should hear you?" "If they do hear anything, it will make them very particular to keep away," said Cassy. "No danger; we may make any noise we please, and it will only add to the effect." At length the stillness of midnight settled down over the house.
And now I tell you, Emmeline, you must make up your mind not to faint, let what will come; there's no sort of need of it. If I had not stopped you, that wretch might have had his hands on you now." Emmeline shuddered. The two remained some time in silence. Cassy busied herself with a French book; Emmeline, overcome with the exhaustion, fell into a doze, and slept some time.
It was the woman Cassy, who had stolen upon his soliloquy. "Hah! you she-devil! you've come back, have you?" "Yes, I have," she said, coolly; "come to have my own way, too!" "You lie, you jade! I'll be up to my word. Either behave yourself, or stay down to the quarters, and fare and work with the rest."
Take it off! burn it up! burn it up!" he screamed, tearing it off, and throwing it into the charcoal. "What did you bring it to me for?" Sambo stood, with his heavy mouth wide open, and aghast with wonder; and Cassy, who was preparing to leave the apartment, stopped, and looked at him in perfect amazement.
"Well; do you know that I am a veteran officer, and smoke my pipe, lots?" "You must rest, Cassy," said mother. "Don't go upstairs, though, till you have had your supper. Hurry it up, Temperance." "It will be on the table in less than no time, Miss Morgeson," she answered, "provided Miss Fanny is agreeable about taking in the teapot."
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