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No use to drive a willin' hoss to death. I can get a place for both of the gyrls in the mill, an' aftah the fust month aftah they learn the job, they can earn enough to support you comf't'bly. Now, we'll give you a nice little cottage no bother of keepin' up a big run-down place like this jes' a neat little cottage. Aunt Mariah can keep it in nice fix.
There now, don't sit there and swing yo' hat under that chyar, but rouse out and come along with me to the pawty if you can shake a foot, and show Miss Pinkney and the gyrls yo' fit for something mo' than to skirmish round as a black japanned spittoon for Julia Jeffcourt!"
The gyrls will be employed and busy an' you can jes' live comf't'bly, an' res'. An' say," he added, slyly "you can get all the credit at the Company's sto' you want an' I'm thinkin' you'll find a better brand of licker than that you've been samplin'." Besotted as he was hardened and discouraged the proposition came over Conway with a wave of shame.
She was followed by an old black mammy, whose anxiety for fear her charge might get her clothes soiled was plainly evident; from the parlor came the notes of an old piano, sadly out of tune, and Jud could hear the fine voice of another daughter singing a love ballad. "You've got two mighty pyeart gyrls here," at last he ventured.
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