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"Don't stir, co'nnle, I didn't sit where I could look in yo'r face for fear of waking yo'. But I'll change seats now." She moved to the chair which Sophy had vacated, drew it slightly nearer the bed, and sat down.
We hain't got anything agin YOU, co'nnle; we don't want to interfere with YOUR property, and YOUR ways, but we don't calculate to have strangers interfere with OUR ways and OUR customs. Trot out your nigger you No'th'n folks don't call HIM 'property, you know and we'll clear off your land." "And may I ask what you want of Cato?" said Courtland quietly.
A light laugh followed, and the first speaker turned again to Courtland with a mocking politeness. "Very well, co'nnle, if that's your opinion, and you allow we can't follow our game over your property, why, we reckon we'll have to give way TO THOSE WHO CAN. Sorry to have troubled YOU. Good-night."
Then with a charming exaggeration she waved her little hand towards the sofa. "There! Yo' naturally wanted a little room for that, co'nnle, but now that yo' 've got it off, and mighty pooty it was, too, yo' can sit down."
"Sit still, co'nnle. Yo' 've been a soldier, and yo' know what duty is. Well! what's yo' duty to yo' company?" "It neither includes my private affairs nor regulates the beating of my heart. I will resign." "And leave me and Aunt Miranda and the plantation?" "No! The company will find another superintendent to look after your aunt's affairs and carry out our plans.
She stopped, gazing into Courtland's face with a pretty vague impatience and a slight pouting of her lip. "Co'nnle!" "Miss Sally." "Yo' say yo' had known me for three years before yo' saw me. Well, we met once before we ever spoke to each other!" Courtland looked in her laughing eyes with admiring wonder. "When?" he asked. "The first day yo' came!
"Yo' didn't go huntin' me for three years to tell ME, a So'th'n girl, that So'th'n men know how to fight, did yo', co'nnle?" returned the young lady, with the slightest lifting of her head and drooping of her blue-veined lids in a divine hauteur. "They were always ready enough for that, even among themselves.
Yo' moved the ladder when I was on the cornice, and I walked all ever yo' head. And, like a gentleman, yo' never said a word about it. I reckon I stood on yo' head for five minutes." "Not as long as that," said Courtland laughing, "if I remember rightly." "Yes," said Miss Sally with dancing eyes. "I, a So'th'n girl, actually set my foot on the head of a No'th'n scum of a co'nnle! My!"
"It's mine, when you're on property that I control." The man hesitated and looked interrogatively towards his fellows. "I allow you've got us there, co'nnle," he said at last with the lazy insolence of conscious power, "but I don't mind telling you we're wanting a nigger about the size of your Cato.
Tavy and Gussie Reed ain't exactly poisonous, co'nnle, and yo' might see one or the other home from church next Sunday. The Sunday after that, just to show yo' ain't particular, and that yo' go in for being a regular beau, yo' might walk home with ME. Don't be frightened I've got a better gown than this. It's a new one, just come home from Louisville, and I'll wear it for the occasion."
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