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There ensued a slight pause which somewhat embarrassed me, for at every pause he regarded me with an air of meek and hesitant appeal. "She's a little down-sperrited is Esmeraldy," he said. "An'," adding this suddenly in a subdued and fearful tone, "so am I." Having said this he seemed to feel that he had overstepped a barrier.
Mother she was raised in a town, she was raised in 'Lizabethville, an' she allers took to town ways; but me an' Esmeraldy, we was raised in the mountains, right under the shadder of old Bald, an' town goes hard with us. Seems like we're allers a thinkin' of North Callina. An' mother she gits outed, which is likely.
After the completion of the ceremony, he presented Monsieur Wash with a package. "It's papers as I've had drawd up fur Esmeraldy," he said. "It'll start you well out in the world, an' after me and mother's gone, there's no one but you and her to have rest. The Lord may the Lord bless ye!" We accompanied them to Havre, and did not leave them until the last moment.
Clélie bent down and lifted her up, consoling her tenderly. "Mademoiselle," she said, "do not despair. Le Bon Dieu will surely have pity." The father drew forth the large linen handkerchief, and unfolding it slowly, applied it to his eyes. "Yes, Esmeraldy," he said; "don't let us give out, at least don't you give out.
The father addressed the young lady slowly and deliberately, and with an accent which, but for my long residence in England and familiarity with some forms of its patois, I should find it impossible to transcribe. "Esmeraldy," he said, "your ma's a long time acomin'." "Yes," answered the girl, with the same accent, and in a voice wholly listless and melancholy, "she's a long time."
At this juncture came the timid summons upon the door, and the father entered with a disturbed and subdued air. He did not conceal his hat, but held it in his hands, and turned it round and round in an agitated manner as he seated himself beside his daughter. "Esmeraldy," he said, "don't you take it so hard; honey. Mother, she's kinder outed, and she's not at herself rightly. Don't you never mind.
An' you mustn't mind, Esmeraldy, it's bein' kinder rough on me, as can't go back on mother, havin' swore to cherish her till death do us part You've allus been a good gal to me, an' we've thought a heap on each other, an' I reckon it can allers be the same way, even though we're sep'rated, fur it's nat'ral you should have chose Wash, an' an' I wouldn't have it no other way, Esmeraldy.
"Come with me," replied Clélie. Never never in my life has it been my fate to see, before or since, a sight so touching as the meeting of these two young hearts. When the door of the cold, bare room opened, and Mademoiselle Esmeralda entered, the lover held out his weak arms with a sob, a sob of rapture, and yet terrible to hear. "I thought you'd gone back on me, Esmeraldy," he cried.
I'd worked hard, early and late, always thinking that some day we'd begin life there together Esmeraldy and me." "Since neither sea, nor land, nor cruelty, could separate them," said Clélie to me during the day, "it is not I who will help to hold them apart."
I'd give a heap to see Wash now. I'd give a heap to see him, Esmeraldy." It was as if the words were the last straw. The girl turned toward him and flung herself upon his breast with a passionate cry. "Oh, father!" she sobbed, "we sha'n't never see him again never never! nor the mountains, nor the people that cared for us.
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