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And Mary Alice Smith was right, too, in her early prognostications regarding the visits of her Uncle Tomps and Aunt 'Lizabeth. Many times through the winter they "jest dropped in," as Aunt 'Lizabeth always expressed it, "to see how we was a-gittin' on with Mary Alice."
"Let him go on playin' an' workin' in th' garden an' eatin' hearty an' drinkin' plenty o' good sweet milk an' there'll not be a finer pair i' Yorkshire, thank God for it." She put both hands on Mistress Mary's shoulders and looked her little face over in a motherly fashion. "An' thee, too!" she said. "Tha'rt grown near as hearty as our 'Lizabeth Ellen. I'll warrant tha'rt like thy mother too.
Slowly passing through a certain charming colony of summer homes, they were suddenly hailed. Out from a shingled bungalow, and across a velvet lawn streamed three old friends of Mamma's, Mrs. Law'nce Arch'bald, and her daughter, 'Lizabeth Sarah, who was almost Mamma's age, and 'Lizabeth Sarah's husband, Harry Fairfax. These three were rapturously presented to the Venables by Mrs.
William's silence was his wife's opportunity. "Robbery's the word, you baggage! You thought to buy him wi' your ill-got gains. Ugh! go along wi' you!" 'Lizabeth threw a desperate look towards the cause of this trouble the pale mask lying on the pillows. Finding no help, she turned to William again "You believe I meant to rob you?" Meeting her eyes, William bent his own on the floor, and lied.
Hand took the hint and departed, saying only, "Good-by, Lizabeth," with a nod, half-encouraging, half-admonitory, which Elizabeth silently returned. That was all the parting between mother and daughter; they neither kissed nor shook hands, which undemonstrative farewell somewhat surprised Hilary. Now, Miss Hilary Leaf had all this while gone on toasting.
They feared Billy's detection and therefore despaired. However, the teacher did not proceed at once to take his seat. He approached Mrs. Piedmont and Belton, who had taken seats midway the room and were interested spectators of all that had been going on. Speaking to Mrs. Piedmont, he said: "What is your name?" She replied: "Hannah Lizabeth Piedmont." "Well, Hannah, what is your brat's name?"
"Poor soul," she said; "but she looked a sickly one." That was all. She herself wondered that the news should affect her so little. "I reckon," said Mrs. Hooper with meaning, "William will soon be lookin' round for another wife." 'Lizabeth went quietly on with her skimming.
William Transom." "Come along to the house." 'Lizabeth turned abruptly and led the way. Mrs. William Transom gathered up her carpet-bag and bedraggled skirts and followed, sobbing still, but in diminuendo. Inside the kitchen 'Lizabeth faced round on her again. "So you'm William's wife." "I am; an' small comfort to say so, seein' this is how I'm served. Reely, now, I'm not fit to be seen."
He was often moaning and mourning that way nights, when he judged I was asleep, and saying, "Po' little 'Lizabeth! po' little Johnny! it's mighty hard; I spec' I ain't ever gwyne to see you no mo', no mo'!" He was a mighty good nigger, Jim was.
But this time I somehow got to talking to him about his wife and young ones; and by and by he says: "What makes me feel so bad dis time 'uz bekase I hear sumpn over yonder on de bank like a whack, er a slam, while ago, en it mine me er de time I treat my little 'Lizabeth so ornery.
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