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As she turned to take her little girl from the arms of the servant, she displayed a fine profile and perfectly moulded form. No wonder that ten years before, when she was placed upon the auction-block at Savanah, she had brought so high a price. Mr. Garie had paid two thousand dollars for her, and was the envy of all the young bucks in the neighbourhood who had competed with him at the sale.
Hurry, Emily! do, for God sake!" Mr. Garie aroused the sleeping children, and threw some clothes upon them, over which he wrapped shawls or blankets, or whatever came to hand. Rushing into the next room, he snatched a pair of loaded pistols from the drawer of his dressing-stand, and then hurried his terrified wife and children down the stairs.
Listen, they've broken in the door. Quick quick! go on;" and as he spoke, he pressed her and the children out of the door, and closed it behind them. Mrs. Garie ran down the garden, followed by the children; to her horror, she found the gate locked, and the key nowhere to be found. "What shall we do?" she cried. "Oh, we shall all be killed!" and her limbs trembled beneath her with cold and terror.
The heart of Clarence almost ceased to beat at the sound of that well-known name, and had not both the ladies been so engrossed in observing the new-comer, they must have noticed the deep flush that suffused his face, and the deathly pallor that succeeded it. Mr. Stevens was presented to Miss Bates, and Miss Ellstowe turned to present him to Clarence. "Mr. Garie Mr. Stevens," said she.
"Yes," he replied, and added, as he extended his hand; "I have the pleasure of addressing Mr. Walters, I suppose?" Mr. Walters bowed low as he accepted the proffered hand, and courteously requested his visitor to be seated. As Mr. Garie resumed his seat, he could not repress a look of surprise, which Mr.
Garie bowed stiffly to him as they stood on the steps of their respective residences, which were only divided by the low iron fence; but, beyond the slight inclination of the head, took no further notice of him. "The cursed haughty brute," muttered Mr. Stevens, as he jerked the bell with violence; "how I hate him!
The waters were dancing and rippling in the morning sun, and the gaily-painted ferry-boats were skimming swiftly across its surface in their trips to and from the city, which was just awaking to its daily life of bustling toil. "What an immense city it is!" said Mrs. Garie "how full of life and bustle! Why there are more ships at one pier here than there are in the whole port of Savanah!"
"I wonder what all this is for; what can it mean," he exclaimed. They had now approached sufficiently near for him to understand their cries. "Down with the Abolitionist down with the Amalgamationist! give them tar and feathers!" "It's a mob and that word Amalgamationist can it be pointed at me? It hardly seems possible; and yet I have a fear that there is something wrong." "What is it, Garie?
Her son George in his visits had never been permitted farther than the front parlour; and all the information that could be drawn from little Lizzy, who was frequently in Mrs. Garie's bedroom, was that "she was a pretty lady, with great large eyes." One evening, when Mr. Garie was occupying his accustomed seat, he was accosted from the other side by Mrs.
"Come, out with it, and let me hear what it was." "Oh, Garie, it was nothing of any consequence." "Consequence or no consequence, let me hear what it was, dear." "Well, as you insist on hearing it, I was about to say that I wish they were not little slaves." "Oh, Em! Em!" exclaimed he, reproachfully, "how can you speak in that manner?
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