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Updated: May 14, 2025
"No, I won't take any supper you needn't bring it but give me a glass of Burgundy, and then go to bed. Where is your mistress, by the way? Has she gone to her room?" Uncle Shadrach brought the bottle of Burgundy from the cellaret and placed it upon the table. "Naw, suh, Miss July she set out ter de quarters ter see atter Mahaley," he returned.
"En dis yer ain' Mahaley's cabin caze Mahaley she ain' never set foot inside my do', en I ain' gwine set foot at her buryin'." She spoke shrilly, moved by a hidden spite, but the Governor, without stopping, went on along the line of open doors.
"Does Mahaley live here?" he asked again and yet again, until, suddenly, he had no need to put the question for from the last room he heard a low voice praying, and upon looking in saw his wife kneeling with her open Bible near the bedside. With his hat in his hand, he stood within the shadow of the doorway and waited for the earnest voice to fall silent.
"Is this Mahaley's cabin?" he anxiously inquired, "and has your mistress gone by?" In the first room an old negro woman sat on the hearth wrapping the hair of her grandchild, and she rose with a courtesy and a smile of welcome. At the question her face fell and she shook her head. "Dis yer ain' Mahaley, Marster," she replied.
Mahaley was dying, this he saw when his glance wandered to the shrunken figure beneath the patchwork quilt; and at the same instant he realized how small a part was his in Mahaley's life or death. He should hardly have known her had he met her last week in the corn field; and it was by chance only that he knew her now when she came to die.
"Mahaley she's moughty bad off, but 'tain' no night fur Miss July dat's w'at I tell 'er one er dese yer spittin' nights ain' no night ter be out in." "You're right, Shadrach, you're right," responded the Governor; and rising he drank the wine standing. "It isn't a fit night for her to be out, and I'll go after her at once."
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