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Updated: June 10, 2025
Em talked of our being married on the same day as Tant Sannie; but I said it would be nicer for her if she waited till the shearing was over, and I took her down to see you. I don't like her at all, Jemima, and I don't think you would.
Sometimes," she added, walking on, and shaking the dust daintily from her skirts, "when I am not too busy trying to find a new way of doing my hair that will show my little neck to better advantage, or over other work of that kind, sometimes it amuses me intensely to trace out the resemblance between one man and another: to see how Tant Sannie and I, you and Bonaparte, St.
He visited the cabin no more, sat close to Tant Sannie drinking coffee all the evening, and walked about loftily with his hands under the coat-tails of the German's black cloth and failed to see even a nigger who wished him a deferential good morning. It was therefore with no small surprise that the German perceived Bonaparte's red nose at the door. "Walk in, walk in," he said joyfully.
"Here," said Tant Sannie to her Hottentot maid, "I have been in this house four years, and never been up in the loft. Fatter women than I go up ladders; I will go up today and see what it is like, and put it to rights up there. You bring the little ladder and stand at the bottom."
Couldn't you come and say good-day to me? Don't you want some supper?" He said he wanted nothing, and turned his heavy eyes away from her. "There's a ghost been seen in your father's room," said Tant Sannie. "If you're afraid you can sleep in the kitchen." "I will sleep in our room," said the boy slowly. "Well, you can go now," she said; "but be up early to take the sheep. The herd "
"Ah, this will do your heart good," said Tant Sannie, in whose mind the relative functions of heart and stomach were exceedingly ill-defined. When the basin was emptied the violence of his grief was much assuaged; he looked at Tant Sannie with gentle tears. "Tell him," said the Boer-woman, "that I hope he will sleep well, and that the Lord will comfort him, as the Lord only can."
One can always get another husband, but one can't get another father," said Tant Sannie, casting a sidelong glance at Bonaparte. Bonaparte expressed a wish to give Waldo his orders for the next day's work, and accordingly the little woolly-headed Kaffer was sent to call him. After a considerable time the boy appeared, and stood in the doorway.
Take him to your room," she cried to the German; "but all the sin he does I lay at your door." The German having told him how matters were arranged, the stranger made a profound bow to Tant Sannie and followed his host, who led the way to his own little room. "I thought she would come to her better self soon," the German said joyously. "Tant Sannie is not wholly bad, far from it, far."
"PEPPERMINT lollipops, mind!" he went on, in the same solemn undertone. "Sannie likes them best peppermint." I put my foot in the stirrup, and vaulted into my saddle. "They shall not be forgotten," I answered, with a quiet smile at this pretty little evidence of fatherly feeling. I rode off. It was early morning, before the heat of the day began.
"Who is it that has come?" asked Bonaparte, when he stood drinking his coffee in the front room. "Why, my niece, to be sure," said Tant Sannie, the Hottentot maid translating. "She's the only daughter of my only brother Paul, and she's come to visit me. She'll be a nice mouthful to the man that can get her," added Tant Sannie.
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