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Updated: May 1, 2025
"Go down dar, you black wretch!" she cried, thrusting Hester quickly down into the coffee-hole; "how you s'pose massa git his dollars if you not work? Go to work, or I'll skin you!" Truly those negroes, male and female, seemed to possess most effective capacity for, and original methods of, coming to the rescue of their friends in moments of danger!
The girl did not reply. "She's dumb!" said Peter quickly. "Ah, poor thing!" returned Foster, in a voice of pity. "Deaf, too, I suppose?" "Well, I don't know as to dat, Geo'ge." "Is this one dumb too?" asked the middy, pointing to the coffee-hole. "Oh dear no!" interposed Lilly. "Sally a'n't dumb; she's awrful sharp with 'er tongue!"
The gasp that came from the coffee-hole when this speech was made had something very real in it, and immediately afterwards the pounding was redoubled. "Was the slabe white or black?" asked Mrs Lilly, with childlike simplicity, and more for the purpose of gaining time to think than anything else. "She was white," interposed Osman, "and very beautiful, in fact, one of the ladies of the harem."
Then Peter the Great and Lilly sat down, took a long grave look at each other, threw back their heads, opened their cavernous mouths, and indulged in a quiet but hearty laugh. "Now you kin come out, dearie," said Lilly, turning to the coffee-hole on recovering composure. But no response came from the "vasty deep." "De coast's cl'ar, my dear," said Peter, rising.
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