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I found that they supposed me to be walking in my sleep, a practice to which I was somewhat addicted; and not seeing why sleep-walkers should not direct their course to the cupboard as well as anywhere else, I boldly seized a loaf and commenced an attack upon it. "Let us wait and see what she will do," whispered Mammy.
He tried to speak, but a spasm of pain checked him, and Recta bent low to catch the words. He pointed upwards, threw his arms around her neck, and was gone. "We buried him at the left of your parents beside mammy, and when I left a mantle of soft, white snow was flung over all. "I brought Fanny home with me, and Recta is living with Dr. Goodrich's family.
"Then there's your mammy," Caleb pleaded, and now the pen stopped. "Mother must not know." "How can we he'p her knowin', Buddy? I tell you, son, the very stones o' Paradise'll rise up to testify against us, now, and at the last great day, maybe." The frown deepened between the young man's eyes. "The old, old phantom!" he said, half to himself.
We'll see you running away, all of us white folk, and the overseer and Mammy Chloe! If you climb this willow, the dogs will tree you like they did Aunt Dinah's Jim! Lie down and I'll cover you with leaves like the babes in the wood!" Miranda, a slim black limb of Satan in a blue cotton gown, flung herself with promptitude upon the ground.
"You going to sleep, Mammy?" inquired Hilda, touching her face. Mrs. Hooven roused herself a little. "Hey? Vat you say? Asleep? Yais, I guess I wass asleep." Her voice trailed unintelligibly to silence again. She was not, however, asleep. Her eyes were open. A grateful numbness had begun to creep over her, a pleasing semi-insensibility.
"He's a-comin' in!" cried Davie in chorus, which sent Phronsie flying to Polly. In jumped a little old man, quite spry for his years; with a jolly, red face and a pack on his back, and flew into their midst, prepared to do his duty; but what should he do, instead of making his speech, "this jolly Old Saint " but first fly up to Mrs. Pepper, and say "Oh, mammy how did you do it?"
Suddenly she went to Mother and put her arms round her and began to cry again. And still she could find no words, only, "Oh, Mammy, oh, Mammy, oh, Mammy," over and over again. Mother held her very close and waited. Suddenly Bobbie broke away from her and went to her bed.
Dis yere coat w’at Mista Grégor gi’me,” looking critically down at its length, which swept the floor as he remained on his knees. “He done all to’e tu pieces time he gi’ him tu me, whar he scuffle wid Joçint yonda tu de mill. Mammy ’low she gwine mek him de same like new w’en she kin kotch de time.”
"I dislike extremely that habit you have, Nora, of calling me mammy; mother is the word you should address your parent with. Please remember in future that I wish to be called mother." "Oh, yes, mother!" answered Nora. The girl had the sweetest temper in the world, and no amount of reproof ever caused her to answer angrily.
"Some of the most beautiful lessons of faith and trust I have ever learned were from among our lowly people in their humble cabins." "Mamma!" called a faint voice from the adjoining room. Marie immediately arose and went to the bedside of her sick child, where Mammy Liza was holding her faithful vigils. The child had just awakened from a fitful sleep.
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