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Peyton the slip, chucked up her situation as adopted darter, and went off with a queer sort of a cirkiss woman, one of her own KIN, and I reckon one of her own KIND." To this Mr. Hooker offered no further reply than a withering rebuke of the waiter, a genteel abstraction, and a lofty change of subject.
As the figure paused before the door, Miss Tish gasped, and cast a quick restraining glance around the classroom. But it was too late; a dozen pairs of blue, black, round, inquiring, or mischievous eyes were already dancing and gloating over the bizarre stranger through the window. "A cirkiss or nigger minstrels sure as you're born!" said Mary Frost, aged nine, in a fierce whisper.
"The other girls said," she began, tugging at the button, "that you was a 'cirkiss'" another tug "'a nigger minstrel'" and a third tug "'a agent with samples' but that showed all they knew!" "Ah," said the colonel with exaggerated blandness, "and er what did YOU er say?" The child smiled. "I said you was a Stuffed Donkey but that was BEFORE I knew you.
What if it were interrupted, or terrible thought made up at the last moment? Would they "holler" out when they were hit, or stagger round convulsively as they did at the "cirkiss"? Would they all run away afterwards and leave Johnny alone to tell the tale? And horrible thought! would any body believe him? Would Rupert? Rupert, had he "on'y knowed this," he wouldn't have gone away. "One"
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