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Updated: May 17, 2025
To be the owner of a lodging-house, like the Baroness, was her leading ambition, and to possess a "peany" for her young daughter Kathleen was another. She kept her mind fixed on these two achievements, and she worked always for those two results.
Ole Mass'r 'Sancon berry good to de coloured people teach many ob um read de books 'specially 'Rore. 'Rore he 'struckt read, write, many, many tings, and young Missa 'Genie she teach her de music. 'Rore she 'complish gal berry 'complish gal. Know many ting; jes like de white folks. Plays on de peany plays on de guitar guitar jes like banjo, an Ole Zip play on daat heamseff he do. Wugh!"
And as mind rules matter, so the laundress became in time the landlady of a comfortable and respectable lodging-house, and in its parlour a piano was the chief object of furniture. Kathleen Connor learned to play; and at last to the joy of the lodgers, she married and bore her "peany" away with her.
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