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Slipt down before I was aware. She had ordered a chair, on purpose to exclude my personal attendance. But I had taken proper precautions. Will. attended her by consent; Peter, the house-servant, was within Will.'s call.
She hummed and hummed as the moments went by, sitting in the shadow by the window, and was therein as happy, though she did not perceive it, as she ever would be. While Carrie was still in this frame of mind, the house-servant brought up the intelligence that Mr. Hurstwood was in the parlor asking to see Mr. and Mrs. Drouet. "I guess he doesn't know that Charlie is out of town," thought Carrie.
They sat speechless and content for some moments, until finally a mulatto house-servant, passing from one building to another, cast a look in their direction, and paused uncertainly in curiosity. The man on the board-pile saw her. "Here, Jinny! Jinny!" he called, just loud enough to be heard, and not turning toward her more than half-way. "Come heah."
I remarked to him that there seemed to exist quite an excitement in his city during the week past, over an old lady who took a few articles of under- clothes and a quilt or two to Fairbanks. "O, yes; were you in the city?" "I was, and was surprised at the excitement produced by her presence." "Well, I suppose Shotwell did make a great stir over his loss of a house-servant.
She especially hated meek, gentle, uncomplaining people, and loved to render them uncomfortable. And China, Ellice's favorite house-servant, was so good, gentle, and obedient, that her former mistress had seldom found fault with her. Mr.
It's flying in the face of Providence that's what I say. I'm only a poor servant, I know. But it's wicked, downright wicked and I don't care who hears me!" Louisa went on with the packing. "Look at her dresses!" persisted the house-servant, waving her hand indignantly at the bed. "I'm only a poor girl, but I wouldn't marry the best man alive without a new gown to my back.
She would have given him more the half, the whole, everything she owned for she regarded him with a feeling that would have been called love in a fairer woman. Alston had been in Virginia something of a house-servant, doing occasional duty as coachman when the regular official was ill or was wanted elsewhere.
Carter, the elder, ordered their house-servant, an old negro named Hannibal, to tackle up a pair of stout roadsters to a two-seated wagon and drive his daughters to the merry-making. Hannibal was a fiddler of renown and that of course formed a double reason why he should go to the ball. The snow was not so deep as to delay the party materially.
The fairness of Isabella's complexion was regarded with envy by the servants as well as by the mistress herself. This is one of the hard features of slavery. To-day a woman is mistress of her own cottage; tomorrow she is sold to one who aims to make her life as intolerable as possible. And let it be remembered that the house-servant has the best situation a slave can occupy.
The sequel proved, however, that common report is oftentimes not to be trusted; for while the ex-slave boy made an excellent house-servant, the discipline he underwent in the officer's house was just such as he needed, and could not fail to be beneficial to him.
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