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Updated: June 12, 2025
"If yer goin' downstairs, Nuss, you'd better take that there scuttle with yer, for the coals is gittin' low an' it ull save yer a journey!" Marcella looked with amusement at her adviser a small bandy-legged boy in shirt and knickerbockers, with black Jewish eyes in a strongly featured face.
"Tell you what we might do," said Perez slowly; "we might explain to her that Jerry don't feel that 'twould be right to think of marryin' with Cap'n Baxter so sick in the house and that, if she's willin', we'll put it off till he dies or gets better. Meantime, we'll pay her so much to stay here and nuss. Seems to me that's about the only way out of it."
Sometimes he chuckled and nodded, anon he scowled, and more than once he rapped his bootleg soundly with the whip. "The little rascal!" he said at last. "And he could have stayed with us, hived up as us'al in the winter with only the critters to nuss and tend, and been sure of his three squares. "What does he rather do, but work and slave, and almost freeze and starve jest to git what, I ax ye?"
"My name," said the seaman, "is Wopper, tho' I'm oftener called Skipper, also Capp'n, by those who know me." Mrs Roby pointed to a chair and begged Captain Wopper to sit down, which he did after bestowing a somewhat pointed glance at the chair, as if to make sure that it could bear him. "You was a nuss once, I'm told," continued the seaman, looking steadily at Mrs Roby as he sat down.
Hab wuk'd all mah life seem ter me. At one time I wuz a chambermaid at de Nicholson House now de Tulane en later 'kum a sick nuss, a seamstress, dressmaker but now I pieces en sells bed quilts. I does mah own housekeepin' en washin'." "I don't member now, very much 'bout de Ku Klux Klan.
Iain' drunk; no, marster, Iain' drunk. I ain' teched a drap er nuffin' sence las' Chris'mas, suh'. "'Youer drunk, Ben, an' don't you dare ter 'spute my wo'd, er I'll kill you in yo' tracks! I'll talk ter you Sad'day night, suh, w'en you'll be sober, an' w'en you'll hab Sunday ter 'fleet over ou' conve'sation, an' 'nuss yo' woun's.
But you can larn where she be at Mr. Warney's, if so be he's still above ground." "And did this woman still go by the name of Joplin?" Bill grinned: "She warn't such a spooney as that, that name was in your black books too much, Mr. R , for a 'spectable nuss for sick bodies; no, she was then called Martha Skeggs, what was her own mother's name afore marriage. Anything more, gemman?"
"But I tell you that Nora is as innocent as her own babe; and her character shall be cleared before the day is out!" exclaimed Hannah, tears of rage and shame welling to her eyes. "Yes, honey, I dessay; and when it's done I'll come back and nuss her for nothing, too," replied the old woman dryly, as she put on her bonnet and shawl. This done she returned to the side of Hannah.
"I'm glad enough to see her marry anyone respectable, let alone a gent, as you truly are, with stone figgers in churches and a handsome face, though rather dark for my liking. Mr. Beecot, twenty year ago, a slip of ten, I come to nuss the baby as was my loving angel upstairs, and her ma had just passed away to jine them as lives overhead playing harps.
He nuver could see none from dat night. "Marse Chan he comed home from college toreckly, an' he sut'n'y did nuss ole marster faithful jes' like a 'ooman.
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