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Updated: June 29, 2025
"You're not so peart as you was, Esmeraldy," he remarked, tremulously; "not as peart by a light smart, and what with that, and what with your fixin's, Wash I mean the home-folks," hastily "they'd hardly know ye." He followed her down-stairs mournfully when she took her departure, and Clélie and myself being left alone interested ourselves in various speculations concerning them, as was our habit.
And, having done this, he added in an undertone: "You see, Esmeraldy, I couldn't, because of mother, as I've swore not to go back on. Wash, he wouldn't go back on you, however high your sperrit was, an' I can't go back on mother."
She takes a sight of comfort out of Mis' Des I can't call your name, but I mean your wife." "Madame Desmarres," I replied, "is rejoiced indeed to have won the friendship of Mademoiselle." "Yes," he proceeded, "she takes a sight of comfort in you and all. An' she needs comfort, does Esmeraldy."
He seized the lapel of my coat and held me prisoner, pouring forth his confessions with a faith in my interest by which I was at once-amazed and touched. "You see it's this way," he said, "it's this way, Mister. We're home folks, me an' Esmeraldy, an' we're a long way from home, an' it sorter seems like we didn't get no useder to it than we was at first. We're not like mother.
It struck me at this moment that he had some request to make of me. He grasped the lapel of my coat somewhat more tightly as if requiring additional support, and finally bent forward and addressed me with caution, "Do you think as Mis' Dimar would mind it ef now an' then I was to step in fur Esmeraldy, an' set a little just in a kinder neighborin' way. Esmeraldy, she says you're so sosherble.
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