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I'd hit this water over the fellow, and all his play-acting merryandrews, if ever he sot a foot here!" "But have you heard of him?" "Ees " said she carelessly; "he's round here now, I heard my master say, about the 'Delphy, with my master: a drinking, I suppose. No good, I'll warrant."
'I do not like that, interrupted Hollyhock. 'I am not a funny little daughter. 'Dearest, said her father, kissing her between her black brows, 'we must forgive Aunt Agnes. She doesn't know us, you see. 'No; and we don't want to know her, said Jasmine. 'We are very happy as we are. We are desperately happy; aren't we, Rose; aren't we, Delphy?
Eugenia emerged from the dusk of the doorway, where she had lingered, and Delphy rose to take the dripping clothes. "Des' look at her!" exclaimed Aunt Verbeny at the girl's entrance. "Ain't she a sight ter mek a blin' man see?" Then she added to the strange little woman, "Dar ain' no lack er beaux roun' yer, needer." Uncle Ish grunted.
Mammy Delphy wiped her eyes and resumed her work. Then, looking up to the blue sky which shone between the vines, she began singing again: "Call me in de mornin' Lord, Or call me in de night, I'se always ready Lord, Glory Hallalu!" And the boys, subdued and silent, and for a moment forgetful of horned-frogs and crawfish, went away softly, as if leaving a grave. "Where going, Sammy Sealskin?".
"Go 'way f'om yer, Marse Dudley; you know I ain' never spank you none ter hu't. En you ain' er bit too fat ter fit yo' skin, nohow." Dudley regarded her with a kindly, patriarchal eye as he straightened himself against the mantel. "Any news from down your way, Delphy?" he inquired with interest. "What's become of Moses? Moses was always a friend of mine.
"Why, Delphy, where did you come from?" she exclaimed. "I didn't know you were in service. Whom are you nursing for?" Delphy responded with a passive nod. "I'se nussin' for Marse Dudley," she retorted. "But I don't want a nurse, Delphy. I take care of the baby myself. I like to do it." Delphy kept up her drowsy jolting, shaking at the same time an unrelenting head.
Between them Delphy's son-in-law, Moses, was helping Bernard mend a broken hare trap, while Delphy, herself, was crooning a lullaby to one of her grandchildren as she carded the wool which she had taken from a quilt of faded patchwork.
Huccome you think I'se gwine ter pay fer a dervoge fer sech er low-lifeted creetur ez dat? He ain' wuth no dervogin', he ain'. When it come ter dervogin', I'll dervoge 'im wid my fis' en foot " Here the baby cried again, and the irate Delphy disappeared into Moses' cabin, while the meek-looking son-in-law hoed the garden patch and muttered beneath his breath.
Some of the words ran this way: "Aldo you sees me go 'long so, I has my trials here below, Sometimes I'se up, sometimes I'se down, Sometimes I'se lebel wid de groun; Oh, git out, Satan Hallalu!" And these words sound queer to you as you read them, perhaps, but they did not sound queer when Mammy Delphy was singing them.
"I like to know why I can't," demanded Eugenia. "I put on a pair of your old ones and they fit me just as well as they do you only Aunt Chris made me get out of them." "Sakes er live!" exclaimed Aunt Verbeny, awaking from her doze. Uncle Ish stared dreamily into the flames. "Ole Miss wuz in her grave, she wuz," he muttered, while Delphy looked at him and shook her head mysteriously.
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