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William's exclamation: "There is Mrs. Tazewell's carriage at the gate, and the driver has a letter in his hand. I hope the old lady is not worse!" Aunt Rachel met the man at the steps, with neighborly anxiety. "How is your mistress, Jack?" "'Bout the same, ma'am. But Miss Rosa she came last night very unexpected, and it kinder worsted Mistis to see her so poorly.
In the manor house itself they were welcomed like home-coming members of the family, as, already wearing their presents of new winter clothes, they came to pay their "respecs to massa and mistis."
See dem buttons? but dey ain't nuthin' to what's on the top shelf you'll bust yo'self wide open a-laughin', Marse George, when ye sees what's in dar you gotter come wid me please Mistis an' Marse Harry, you come too. Dis way " Todd was full to bursting. Had his grin been half an inch wider his ears would have dropped off.
"What's come over you?" said Phillis, looking at her, terrified. "There's nothing the matter with Miss Alice but a headache." "Headache!" said Aunt Peggy, "that's all?" and she laughed again. "Think I didn't see her yesterday? Whars the red cheeks? white about her lips, black about her eyes; jist like Mistis when she was gwine fast, and de young baby on her arm.
May de Lawd brung 'im gray hars at las lak mine, so he see, en his chil'n see, en our chil'n see de 'liverance he hep wrought out. "En dar's young mistis. She hab a heart ter feel fer de po' slabe.
Mrs. Sutton was at the tea-table with the girls that evening, when Johnson, the sable Mercury, showed himself at the door, to inform his superior that he had "got everything at de sto' she sent him fur to buy." "You mailed the letters, Johnson?" said the mild mistress, rather anxiously. "All on dem, Mistis!" "The unconscionable liar!" thought Rosa, virtuously, "he ought to be flogged!
The "new Mistis" had "changed the house around some," he explained, apologetically, and "Marse's Eddie's" things had been moved to one of the servants' rooms, but "Marse Eddie's" old room was a guest chamber, and he "reckoned" that would be the place to take the bag. The visitor's whole manner changed at once froze. The flush of pleasure died out of his face and left it pale, cold and stern.
The maid was so taken aback for a moment that she did not speak. Then she drew herself up. "I know I ain' gwine to tetch it. I done made it up onct to-day. An' I ain't got no mistis." The mammy turned on her. "Umh'm! I thought so! I knows jest yo' kind. Well, de sooner you git out o' dis room de better for you.
Behind them was a mass of golden-rose bushes, and out of these came forth a black face under a turban, saying, "Yes, mistis, I'se comin'." "Mammy Mammy Lucy!" The figure in the window stirred, and the sewing fell its ample lap. "Now Lawd'a mercy!" I trembled with a violence unspeakable.
"Fo' Mistis Temple," he said, and, looking at me queerly, he took off his cap as he jumped from the horse. Mistress Temple herself having arrived, he handed her the letter. She took it, and broke the seal carelessly. "Oh," she said, "it's only from Mr. Lowndes. I wonder what he wishes now." Every moment of her reading was for me an agony, and she read slowly. The last words she spoke aloud:
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