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But being neither a coward nor a weak, hesitating idealist, when he deliberately took his seat beside her he as deliberately made up his mind to accept his fate, whatever it might be, then and there. Perhaps there was something of this in his face. "I thought yo' were looking a little white, co'nnle," she said quietly, "and I reckoned we might sit down a spell, and then take it slowly home.
Only, I declare to goodness, I never reckoned that he and Higbee would revive the tomfooling of the vendetta, and take to shootin' each other at once." "And your sending for your cousin was only a feint to protect me?" said Courtland faintly. "Perhaps he didn't have to be SENT for, co'nnle," she said, with a slight touch of coquetry.
This enabled him, after the languid local fashion, to lean on his elbow and gaze up into the eyes of the young lady, while she with equal languor looked down upon him. But in the present instance Miss Reed leaned forward suddenly, and darting a sharp quick glance into his very consciousness said: "And yo' mean to say, co'nnle, there's nothing between yo' and Sally Dows?"
Yo' and me are good enough friends. But the girls round here think yo' 're a trifle too much taken up with rice and niggers. And looking at it even in yo'r light, co'nnle, it ain't BUSINESS. Yo' want to keep straight with Major Reed, so it would be just as well to square the major's woman folks.
"The future won't concern YO' much, co'nnle, if as yo' say here yo'r resignation is sent in, and yo'r successor appointed," she replied, with more gravity than she had previously shown. "But you do not think I will leave YOU in this uncertainty," he said passionately. He stopped suddenly, his brow darkened. "I forgot," he added coldly, "you will be well protected.
"Let that satisfy your friends then." "No! I want to apologize. Sit down, co'nnle." "But, Miss Sally" "Sit down, quick!" He did so, seating himself sideways on the bank. Miss Sally stood beside him. "Take off yo' hat, sir." He obeyed smilingly. Miss Sally suddenly slipped behind him.
"Yo' mustn't speak that way to me," she went on slowly, "because it's as much as yo' company's wo'th, as much as OUR property's wo'th, as much maybe as yo' life's wo'th! Don't lift yo' comb, co'nnle; if you don't care for THAT, others may.
It was much easier for these pooah boys to fight a thing out than think it out, or work it out. Yo' folks in the No'th learned to do all three; that's where you got the grip on us. Yo' look surprised, co'nnle." "I didn't expect you would look at it quite in in that way," said Courtland awkwardly.
Champney," she continued, turning and lifting her eyes to Courtland as she indicated Champney with her hammer, "when he isn't talking English, seeing English, thinking English, dressing English, and wondering why God didn't make everything English, is trying to do the same for HIS folks. Mr. Champney, Co'nnle Courtland. Co'nnle Courtland, Mr. Champney!" The two men bowed formally.
He didn't happen to tell YO' anything about it did he, co'nnle?" she added with a grave mouth, but an indescribable twinkle in her eyes. Courtland's face darkened. "He did and he further told me, Miss Dows, that he himself was your suitor, and that you had refused him because of the objections of your people." She raised her eyes to his swiftly and dropped them.
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