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"Well, den," said Isham, "dar was once a cullud angel wot went up to de gate ob heaben to git in. He didn't know nuffin' 'bout de ways ob de place, bein' a strahnger, an' when he see all de white angels a crowdin' in at de gate where Sent Peter was a settin', he sorter looked round to see if dar warn't no gate wot he might go in at.
I tought I owed you enuff before, but it war nothing to dis. Just to tink dat you should take all dat pains to fetch Dinah back for me! I dunno how it came to you to do it. It seems to me like as if you been sent special from heaben to do dis poor nigger good. Words aint no good, sah; but if I could give my life away a hundred times for you I would do it."
Oh, my good Lor' in heaben, what dis?" "It is Nora's child, Dinah. Didn't you know she had one?" said Hannah; with a choking voice and a crimson face. "Neber even s'picioned! I knowed as she'd been led astray, poor thin', an' as how it was a-breakin' of her heart and a-killin' of her! Leastways I heard it up yonder at de house; but I didn't know nuffin' 'bout dis yere!" "But Uncle Jovial did."
Hagar got up off the bench where she was sitting, and came slowly forward, saying, brokenly, "Bress de Lord, bress de Lord! dat's all Hagar ken say. Oh, chile, ef ye knew how dis ole heart felt ter hear ye say dem words! ef ye only c'u'd know! But ye nebber will till dis ole woman gits such a tongue as de Lord'll gib her when she gets ter heaben. Den Hagar ken tell ye!"
The words were as follows: Had a lovin' mother, Been climbin' up de hill so long; She been hopin' git to heaben in due time Befo' dem heaben do's close! And then the chorus, voicing first a passionate entreaty, then rising in the final bars to a great exultant shout: Den chain dat lion down, Good Lawd! Den chain dat lion down! Oh, please! Good Lawd, done chained dat lion down!
"Do not call it a wicked world; it is a beautiful world, which God has given us to live in!" "Ah, missy, if oder white folks like you, I 'specks it be jus no world at all; it be all one great heaben!"
"He's sparkin' some gal, Miss Sue; dat's what ails him," she said one evening as she knelt on the sitting-room hearth to kindle the first fire of the season. "Dey ain't but two t'ings onder heaben dat'll keep a man f'om eatin'. One's a woman, t' other is lack ob food." Judge Hollis looked over his glasses and smiled. "Who do you think the lady is, Melvy?"
"Well, chile, dis great Lord he lib up in de heaben of heabens, way up ober dat blue sky, and he sits all de time on a great trone, and he sees ebery ting dat goes on down har in dis yer world. Ef ye does any ting bad, he puts it down in a great book he's got, and byme-by he'll punish de wicked folks right orful." "Whip?" questioned Tidy.
It was before railroads and steam-engines were much talked of in Virginia. Alighting in the outskirts of the town, Simon lifted the young girl to the ground, and hastily commending her to "de bressed Lord of heaben and earf," he bade her good-by, and went back to his bondage and toil. They never saw each other again.
"O bressed Lord, dat's in de heaben and de earf and ebery whar; you's heerd all de tings dat we's asked for.
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