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I am invested with no authority for diverging from them. The money must be paid. 'In full and slap down, do you mean, Mr Riah? asked Fledgeby, to make things quite explicit. 'In full, sir, and at once, was Riah's answer.
'I don't, you know, proceeded Fledgeby with an ill-favoured glance, 'entertain the vanity of supposing that my wits could be of any use to you in society, but they might be here. You cultivate society and society cultivates you, but Mr Riah's not society. In society, Mr Riah is kept dark; eh, Mr Twemlow?
'I don't like, Mr Twemlow, said Fledgeby, 'I don't like Riah's calling in the principal. If he's determined to call it in, it must come. 'But supposing, sir, said Twemlow, downcast, 'that it can't come? 'Then, retorted Fledgeby, 'you must go, you know. 'Where? asked Twemlow, faintly. 'To prison, returned Fledgeby.
But Beverly was not dying, and within an hour, under her mother's and good old Mammy Riah's ministrations, was warm and snug in her bed, though weak and exhausted. When the doctor came he ordered absolute quiet and undisturbed rest. "She will soon drop off to sleep, and let her sleep for hours if she can.
Indeed, in reviewing the ways and doings of the plantation in those days, it seems entitled to no more prominence in the retrospect than many another incident of equal ingenuousness and novelty. There was the second wooing of old Aunt Salina-Sue, for instance, and Uncle 'Riah's diseases; but, as Another would say, these are other stories.
"Well, I'm glad I'm here, anyway," said the girl, pressing his arm, "and Mammy Riah's glad, too, though she won't confess it. Aren't you just delighted to see Jack again, Mammy?" The old negress grunted in her corner of the carriage. "I ain' seed no use in all dis yer fittin'," she responded. "W'at's de use er fittin' ef dar ain' sumpen' ter fit fer dat you ain' got a'ready?"
Nothing more being said of repairing to Riah's, they went direct to Lizzie's lodging. A little short of the house-door she parted from them, and went in alone. 'Mr Aaron, said Eugene, when they were left together in the street, 'with many thanks for your company, it remains for me unwillingly to say Farewell.
She hurried on and Virginia, turning from the window, buried herself in the pillows upon the bed, trying in vain to shut out the noise of the cannonading and the perfume of the magnolia blossoms which came in on the southern breeze. With night the guns grew silent and the streets empty, but still the girl lay sleepless, watching with frightened eyes the shadow of Mammy Riah's palm-leaf fan.
She opened the door, and Mammy Riah's voice followed her across the hall and down the broad staircase: "Oh, we'll ride on de milk w'ite ponies, by en bye, little chillun, We'll ride on de milk w'ite ponies, by en bye." At the foot of the stair she called the dogs, and they came bounding through the hall and leaped upon her as she crossed the portico.
'Have you, by George! said Fledgeby; 'I suppose you happen to know whose premises these are? 'Sir, they are yours, and I am your servant in them. 'Oh! I thought you might have overlooked that, retorted Fledgeby, with his eyes on Riah's beard as he felt for his own; 'having company on my premises, you know! 'Come up and see the guests, sir. I hope for your admission that they can do no harm.
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