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Updated: June 21, 2025
She th'ows up excuse the figgeh she th'ows up, I say, her foot to kick him out; he tearfully ketches it in his ha-and an' retains it with the remahk, 'I repent! What can his church do? She can do jest one thing!" "What's that?" asked the lady, gathering his dishes without rising. "Why she can make him marry Miz Proudfit!" The lady got very red.
Proudfit and the train moved on. Everybody felt playful and nearly everybody coquettish. When Sister Proudfit, in response to some sly gallantry of Garnet's used upon him a pair of black eyes, he gave her the whole wealth of his own. He must have overdone the matter, for the next moment he found Fannie's eyes levelled directly on him.
And with them went Ellen Ember, as if, secretly, she were wiser than we knew. And while the others blocked the passage or crowded into the room, according to the nature which was theirs, some one came from the cellarway and paused, smiling, on the threshold. And it was Miss Clementina Proudfit, with eggs in her hands. "Wait!" I heard Delia's sharp, piping voice then; "wait!"
At Turkey Creek Halliday was talkative, Garnet overflowed with information, Captains Champion and Shotwell were boyish, and Colonel Proudfit got tight. They ate cold fried chicken and drank "Whew! stop, stop! I can't take Why, half that would" etc. "Where's Mr. Ravenel?" "Who, Jeff-Jack?
And as I lingered, the outer door was pushed open to admit some late comer who whisked down the passage and stood in the dining-room doorway. It was Calliope. "Delia More!" she cried; "didn't I tell you how it'd be if you'd only let 'em know? An' Mis' Proudfit, you here? I been worried to death on account o' forgettin' to take home your cream lace waist I mended."
No one refused, no one hesitated; and when, at eight o'clock, the Topladys and I reached the rendezvous in the Engine-House entry, every one was there before us save only, of course, the Proudfits. "Where's the Proudfits? Ain't we goin' to wait for the Proudfits?" asked more than one; and some one had seen the Proudfit motor come flashing through the town from the Plank Road, empty.
Proudfit whirled and stared. The General gave a low laugh. "Why, John, that sounds mighty funny to come from you. Would you do such a thing as that? run off with another man's niggers?" John bit his lip and looked at his cigar. "Are they yours, General?" "By Jove! my son, they're not yours! O! of course, you've got the legal pshaw! I'm not going to dispute an abstraction with you.
He knew that Garnet, months before, had swapped his Land Company stock to Proudfit for the Colonel's much better stock in the Construction Company and succeeded him as president of the latter concern.
Shotwell pretended to burst with merriment. "Why, neither does the Colonel! That was only a sort o' glittering generality to hide his emba'assment haw, haw, haw!" Proudfit smiled modestly. "Shot, you're right again! He's right again, John. It was only one o' my grittlin' gen my grilterin' geren aw! Shot, hush yo' fuss! you confu-use me!" John was laughing before he knew it.
Go and amuse yourself; you can't get 'em; the niggers that don't owe won't go; that's the poetry of it. I'd rather you'd take the fellows that owe than the one's that don't; but you won't get either kind." "I can try, General." "No, sir, you can't!" exclaimed Proudfit. His cigar went into the fireplace with a vicious spat, and his eyes snapped.
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