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'Perhaps, she thought to herself, 'they will never speak of it again to me; perhaps that is what their mother has told them she wished. But after all, it doesn't look as if this would much matter, for there is no sign that Lady Myrtle means to take any more notice of us, not even of poor Jass. I'm not surprised; any one that can be so unkind about her own relations can't be very nice.
But ye mus 'n t worry about the penalty a-fallin' on Rome. Steve Marcum killed Jass he can't fool me 'n' I've told Steve he's got thet penalty to pay ef he gits up this trouble. I'm glad the Spent's a-workin' ye, but ye mus'n' t worry 'bout Rome." Isom rose suddenly on one elbow, and with a moan lay back and crossed his arms over his face. Old Gabe turned and left him. "Git up, Isom."
It was a much shorter one than Jacinth's, and she had scarcely glanced at the first few lines when she sprang from her seat with a sort of shriek. 'They're coming home, Jass! that's the secret. Oh Jass, Jass, listen: "As I may hope to see you before long, my darling, I won't attempt to write very much." That's it. Oh Jassie, sweet, they're coming home!
And her eagerness to go home and talk it all over with 'Jass, made her, notwithstanding her enjoyment of the afternoon, scarcely sorry when one of Miss Scarlett's servants came out to tell her that her maid had called to fetch her. She said good-bye to her companions and ran in for a moment, by old Miss Scarlett's special desire, to the drawing-room, where the ladies were sitting.
But" there was a judicial pause "I've heerd Steve say that he hated Jass wuss' n anybody on earth, 'cept old Brayton; 'n' ef he wus glad o' the chance o' killin' him, why the Lord air merciful, Isom; the Bible air true, 'n' hit says an 'eye fer an eye, a tooth fer a tooth, 'n' I never knowed hit to fail but the Lord air merciful.
She told the whole even how the old Christmas card in her pocket had brought up the subject of Robin Redbreast, and how Bessie had asked her to tell no one but her mother, if she could help it; then how Camilla's letter had repeated this, ending up by what had recently come to her knowledge of the increased troubles of the Harper family. 'Oh Jass, she concluded, 'if we could help them somehow.
But in less than an instant Lady Myrtle seemed herself to regret it. 'I mean to say I see no resemblance in Jacinth to Miss Alison Mildmay. Of course I cannot judge as to her having any to her father. 'Papa has dark hair, like Jass, said Frances. 'But he's very nice-looking.
Won't you do so too, Jass, for there are two or three things we can learn together? 'Very well, said Jacinth, though with a little sigh, 'perhaps it would be better. It was not only that she was tired her head was full of Robin Redbreast and its owner, and all manner of fancies and castles in the air were crowding upon her.
And no one would have suspected the slight sinking of heart with which she said to herself that this would clearly be the best opportunity for what she had to lay before her kind hostess as to the poor Harpers. 'We begin school again on Monday, said Frances. 'I do hope it will be fine till then. Jass, won't you stay with Eugene and me this afternoon?
Isom nodded, without looking around, and when old Gabe was gone he rose nervously and dropped helplessly back to the floor. "'Pears like old Gabe knows I killed Jass," he breathed, sullenly. "'Pears like all of 'em knows hit, 'n' air jus' a-tormentin' me."
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