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Updated: May 11, 2025
Lenox Hildreth held his cigar between his slender fingers and watched the tiny wreaths of smoke as they circled about his head. "So camp-meeting is a privilege, is it?" he said carelessly. "How much more good will it do you to go there than to stay at home and hoe my corn?" The eyes were rolled up until only the whites were visible. "Powerful sight more good, Mass Hildreff.
De preacher's 'n uncommon relijus man, an' de 'speriences uv de bredren is mighty upliftin'. Yes, sah!" "Well, see that they don't lift you up so high that you'll forget to come down again. I suppose you have an experience in common with the rest?" "Yes, Mass Hildreff," and the palm-leaf made another gyration through the air. "I'se got a powerful 'sperience, sah." "Well, off you go.
Mass Hildreff, do yer spose I'se goin' ter neglec' de Lawd fer one lil' turkey?" His master turned on his heel with a low laugh. "Of a piece with the whole of them!" he said bitterly. "Hypocrites and shams!" "Evadne!" he exclaimed impetuously, as a slight girlish figure came towards him, "never say a single word that you do not mean nor express a sensation that you have not felt.
It is rather late in the day to ask for permission when you and your store clothes are all ready for a start." "'Scuse me, Mass Hildreff," with another deprecating wave of the palm-leaf hat, "but yer see I knowed yer wouldn't dissapint me of de priv'lege uv goin' ter camp-meetin' nohow."
"Well, Methusaleh, where are you off to now?" and Lenox Hildreth leaned against a flower wreathed pillar in lazy amusement. "To camp-meetin', Mass Hildreff. I hez your permission, sah?" and the negro rolled his eyes with a ludicrous expression of humility. His master laughed with the easy indulgence which made his servants impose upon him. "You seem to have taken it, you rascal.
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