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Tharon Last knew little outside her own environment. Words and names that had to do with unknown places were vague things to her. "Yes?" she answered politely, "I make no doubt you've come far. Come in. Dinner'll soon be ready," and she moved back from the door with a smile that covered her pitiful ignorance as with a garment of gold.
"Dinner'll be ready in half an hour, sir," said Coley, swearing allegiance in his heart to the man that agreed with him in regard to the photograph that stood with Coley for all that was highest in humanity. "John," he said, sharply, to the Chinese cook, "got good dinner, eh?" "Pitty good," said John, indifferently. "Now, look here, John, him big man." John was not much impressed.
This is a term never used among the blacks, and rolling up her white eyes, Aunt Milly answered, "You done got me now, sartin, for this chile know nothin' what you mean more'n the deadest critter livin'." As well as she could, Mrs. Nichols explained her meaning, and Aunt Milly replied, "Oh, yes, yes, I know now. 'Is it most dinner time? Yes dinner'll be done ready in an hour.
"We was all equal then, jist like one big, happy family, an' good Parson Winstead was to us like a father. But, goodness me! if I keep gassin' this way, dinner'll never be ready," and she hurried off to the kitchen. When Mrs. Dempster brought Joe from the house he was a greatly changed man. His step was elastic, his head erect and his eyes shone with a new hope.
And, oh, I say, me an' Bones are a-goin' off with him an' Rover after I 've had somethin' ter eat 't is mos' grub time, ain't it?" he added anxiously. Ann sighed in a discouraged way. "Yes, I s'pose 't is. I left some beans a-bakin', and dinner'll be ready pretty quick.
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