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Worthington and Aunt Eunice sitting by the cheerful fire just kindled on the marble hearth; and then, withdrawing her hand from Hugh's, trips up the stairs and knocking at a door, goes in where Densie sits, watching the daylight fade from the western sky, and whispering to herself of the baby she could not find when she went back to her home in the far-off city.
Chloe couldn't, Hannah couldn't, Aunt Eunice couldn't, and consequently it all devolved upon herself. They carried Hugh to the room designated by Densie, and into which he went very unwillingly.
I wonder she never curls it. It looks as if she might." Densie did not know. It had struck her as singular taste, unless it were done to conceal a scar, or something of that kind. "I did not like that girl," she said, "and still she interested me more than any person I ever met.
Toward Spring Bank Harney had a peculiar spite, and his threats of violence had more than once reached the ears of Alice, who wisely kept them from the nervous, timid Mrs. Worthington. At her instigation, Aunt Eunice had left her home in the cornfield, and come to Spring Bank, so that the little garrison numbered four white women, including crazy Densie, and twelve negro servants.
"I'm glad he's roused up," the doctor said, "though I don't like the way his fever increases," and Alice knew by the expression of his face that there was but little hope, determining not to leave him during the night. Densie or Aunt Eunice might sleep on the lounge, she said, but the care, the responsibility shall be hers.
I never went near her without experiencing a strange sensation, neither could I keep from watching her continually, although I knew as well as you that it annoyed her, Alice," and Densie lowered her voice almost to a whisper, "I cannot account for it, but I had queer fancies about that girl. Try now and bring her distinctly to your mind.
At Alice's request, Adah and Sam stayed altogether at Spring Bank, but Alice was the ruling power Alice, the one whom Chloe and Claib consulted; one concerning the farm, and the other concerning the kitchen Alice, to whom Aunt Eunice looked for counsel, and Densie for comfort Alice, who remembered all the doctor's directions, taking the entire charge of Hugh's medicines herself and Alice, who wrote to Mrs.
Worthington, Alice and Densie, together with Lulu and Sam, should start at once for Snowdon, where Alice would leave a part of her charge, herself and Mrs. Worthington going on to Washington in hopes of meeting or hearing directly from Hugh. Aunt Eunice and Mug were to remain with Colonel Tiffton, who promised to look after the Spring Bank negroes.
"Anna!" she exclaimed, but uttered no other sound for the terror of something terrible, which kept her silent. She stood looking from one to the other, until the convict said: "Young lady, will you call in Densie Densmore? And stay, let the bride know. She is wanted, too. I may as well confront all my victims at once." Alice never knew what she said to Densie, or 'Lina either.
"It is not an easy task to confess how bad one has been," the stranger said, "and once no power could have tempted me to do it; but several years of prison life have taught me some wholesome lessons, and I am not the same man I was when, Densie Densmore" and his glance turned toward her "when I met you, and won your love. Against you first I sinned.
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