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Updated: May 11, 2025
"Laws! if Missis isn't too good! I was thinking of dat ar very thing; cause I shouldn't need no clothes, nor shoes, nor nothin, I could save every cent. How many weeks is der in a year, Missis?" "Fifty-two," said Mrs. Shelby. "Laws! now, dere is? and four dollars for each on em. Why, how much 'd dat ar be?" "Two hundred and eight dollars," said Mrs. Shelby.
Hicking as he should get away at twelve, 'cause his missis needs him more'n the gentlemen need him. The old woman do talk." "And what does William answer to that?" "He says as the gentlemen can't be kept waiting for their cheese." "But William does not go straight home when he leaves the club?" "That's the kid." "Kid!"
"Do you know the man he works for Meshach Milburn?" "No, missis. I never see him." "He wears a peculiar hat nothing like gentlemen's hats nowadays: it is a hat out of a thousand." "I never did see it, missis." "You cannot mistake it for any other hat in the world. Now, Samson is the only servant and watchman at Mr. Milburn's store, and he attends to that disgraceful hat.
"Missis needn't smoke," said James with a frantic misplaced laugh, and thought the whole matter an excellent joke. But his feelings were very different in the morning, when Mr. Bowls's young man, who operated upon Mr. James's boots, and brought him his hot water to shave that beard which he was so anxiously expecting, handed a note in to Mr. James in bed, in the handwriting of Miss Briggs.
At last, won by Nelly's caresses and Maum Winnie's coaxing, the weary lady consented to take some repose in "ole missis' cheer," where, leaning her aching head upon the cushioned side, she fell asleep. It made her feel very wide awake. Presently she strolled off toward the adjoining cabins.
"Isn't that cake in the skillet almost done?" "Mose done, Mas'r George," said Aunt Chloe, lifting the lid and peeping in, "browning beautiful a real lovely brown. Ah! let me alone for dat. Missis let Sally try to make some cake, t' other day, jes to larn her, she said. 'O, go way, Missis, said I; 'it really hurts my feelin's, now, to see good vittles spilt dat ar way!
I next proceeded to make up the fire, but upon my lifting a log for that purpose, there was one universal outcry of horror, and old Rose, attempting to snatch it from me, exclaimed, 'Let alone, missis let be what for you lift wood you have nigger enough, missis, to do it! I hereupon had to explain to them my view of the purposes for which hands and arms were appended to our bodies, and forthwith began making Rose tidy up the miserable apartment, removing all the filth and rubbish from the floor that could be removed, folding up in piles the blankets of the patients who were not using them, and placing, in rather more sheltered and comfortable positions, those who were unable to rise.
During this little colloquy, Miss Leary had kept her face turned toward the schoolhouse. "What a pretty girl!" she exclaimed. "There," she added, as Tryon turned his head toward her, "you are too late. She has retired into her castle. Oh, Plato!" "Yas, missis," replied Plato, who was prancing round the buggy in great glee, on the strength of his acquaintance with the white folks.
"Comin', missis, comin'!" Mammy Jane had gone to join the old mistress upon whose memory her heart was fixed; and yet not all her reverence for her old mistress, nor all her deference to the whites, nor all their friendship for her, had been able to save her from this raging devil of race hatred which momentarily possessed the town.
"Eh, missis!" breathed Mrs. Tams. "What's this?" Rachel gave a nervous laugh. "I was up. Mr. Fores was asleep, and I had to do something, so I thought " "Has he had a good night, ma'am?" "Fair. Yes, pretty good. I must run up and see if he is awake." Mrs. Tams saw the stains on Rachel's cheeks, but she could not mention them. Rachel had an impulse to fall on Mrs. Tams' enormous breast and weep.
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