hypersensitiveness

Updated: June 15, 2025

"Oh, ez fer that, Mahs William, yo' needn't bother. I got 'nough change 'round 'most all de time." Mammy's tone was patronizing, and brought home to me such a realization of my changed and waning fortunes as no other circumstance could have done. Possibly I may have imagined it in my hypersensitiveness, but Mammy's voice in that sentence seemed transformed, and it was another mammy who spoke.

- Southern Lights and Shadows