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"Nothing but bad treatment on the part of the planters has ever caused the negroes to leave the estates on which they were accustomed to live, and in such cases a change of management has almost uniformly been sufficient to induce them to return. We have known several instances of this kind." S. Bourne, Esq., of Millar's, and Mr. Watkins, of Donavan's.
She would have been glad if her daughter Hester, in carrying out these fashions, had brought forward no rougher, or commoner-looking, or more eccentric satellites and protégés secretaries of those horrid women's unions and clubs than this friend of Rose and Annie Millar's. Mrs. Jennings never forgot a name and its social connection.
"My people have become much more industrious since they were emancipated. I have been induced to extend the sugar cultivation over a number of acres more than have ever been cultivated before." Mr. Watkins, of Donovan's. S. Bourne, of Millar's. "Throughout the island the estates were never in a more advanced state than they now are.
S. Bourne, Esq. stated that the expenses on Millar's estate, of which he is manager, had diminished about one third. Mr. Barnard, of Green Castle, thought his expenses were about the same that they were formerly. Mr. Favey, of Lavicount's estate, enumerated, among the advantages of freedom over slavery, "the diminished expense." Dr.
It was all over in its earlier stages, that dividing and dispersing of the goodly young group of sisters, that bereaving and impoverishing of the abandoned home to which Dora and May had looked forward with such fear and pain, for which all Dr. Millar's fortitude and all his wife's meekness had been wanted to enable them to bear it with tolerable calmness.
Her lace cap was a costly trifle of its kind, but it had an awkward habit the odder in a woman who was neat to formality in the other details of her dress of slipping to one side, or tilting forwards or backwards on the brown hair, still abundant and just streaked with gray; so that one or other of her daughters was constantly calling Mrs. Millar's cap to order and setting it right.
Her mother dressed for the family; or, if she did not, Hester understood that her married sisters and sisters-in-law devoted, with success, a great deal of time which they did not value in other respects, to the subject in question. Speak of Rose Millar's professional notions as to the human figure being left easy and untrammelled!
Annie underwent the entire ordeal, while she doubtless brought a little additional intelligence and capacity and a few more grains of experience to the task than would have existed if she had not been Dr. Millar's daughter.
It was also agreed to bring a trained nurse from some nursing institution, to mould the raw nursing materials which Redcross supplied on the emergency. Dr. Millar's successor had a bright idea that it might be a graceful act on his part to mention the old Doctor's daughter, who had gone in for nursing as a profession.
It was now six o'clock, and the first sound of seven o'clock by Captain Millar's bell was to close the proceedings, and enable the reelers to proclaim the victor. Only four names now remained to battle it out to the last; to wit, a country farmer's daughter, named Betty Aikins, Dora M'Mahon, Hanna Cavanagh, and a servant-girl belonging to another neighbor, named Peggy Bailly.
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