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"Please, sir," said a new maid in place of one who had gone home fever struck and had died "yo' lady saunt me fo' to tell you yo' little boy a sett'n on de back steps an' sayin' his head does ache him, an' she wish you'd 'ten' to him, 'caze she cayn't leave his lill' sisteh, 'caze she threaten with convulsion'." Mrs. Fontenette and the maid silently ran in ahead of me; I went first to the mother.
He had to put shuttehs on his sitt'n'-room windows, too, you know, to quiet Sisteh March's ve'y natu'al fears. I only promised to lend him a small amount if he should need it." "O, he'll need it," said the Major, and included Barbara in his broad smile. "Still, I hope you'll let him have it. If he doesn't return it to you I will; I loved his father.
I had broddehs Danel, Freeman, George, Will, and Henry. Yes maam, Freeman he de younges an bahn after we done got free. An I had sistehs by de name ob Isabella, Mary, Nora, dat aint all yet, you want I should name em all? Well then they was too Celie, Sally, and me Cindy but I aint my own sisteh is I, hee, hee, hee.
"Now, Euonymus, I judge by your being out here in the woods this time of day, idle, that you're both free, you and your sister, h'm?" "Ro' Robelia an' me? Eh, ye' yass'm, as you may say, in a manneh, yass'm." "She is your sister, is she not?" "Yass'm," clapped in Robelia, with a happy grin, and Euonymus quietly added: "Us full sisteh an' brotheh in a manneh." "Umh'm.
There was a moment's silence, when she suddenly rose and offered me a seat, remarking, as she did so, that "Sisteh Ma'y Ann Jinkins ca'in' on so" made her forget her manners. "What is the matter?" said I. "I dunno, seh, 'cep'n' she's mad 'cause docteh won't leave heh stay and talk to Mist' Wheatley; he made heh go, an' I s'pose hit kindeh put heh out." "What was she doing?"
They talked exactly the same, only he sounded much more so, probably from having just been in England for weeks, while in two years she had grown a little as we were. We gazed at them, open-mouthed, like as not, and no one said a word. At last Mr. Stanton, in a very few wuds. I am my friend. The case was my own. The evidence I secuahed was for myself. This is my only sisteh. Heh people are mine "
Faw, as you say in yo' letteh, we two was chief butler an' chief baker to they wedd'n' jess fifty year' ago, bein' at that time hi-ud out to 'Squi' Usher the ole 'Squieh, you know by Miss Rose' motheh, which, you know, Miss Tomb' she was a Usher, daughteh to the old 'Squi' Usher, same as she is still sisteh to the present 'Squieh, who was son to the ole 'Squieh, his father an' hern.
He told me yeste'day he was going to put a friend into Swanee Hotel because Sisteh March felt too feeble, aw fearful, aw somethin', an' he felt bound to stand his expenses." "And so he" the Major paused pleasantly. "How much did you lend him?" "Aw! Brother Garnet, I didn't mean you to know that!
'Oh, my brotheh! she cried, 'Lawd save my po' brotheh! I's los' him ag'in! I done bid my las' dollah at de fust call!" "And Mingo knew her voice, spied her out?" "Yes, and holloed, 'Sidney! sisteh! till grand-mère wept too and a man called out, 'No one bid that six hundred! But grandpère said: 'I bid six-fifty and will tell all about this unlikely boy if his owner bids again.
Worthy son of a worthy motheh! Why, here he is! Howdy, John? I'm so proud to see Sisteh March here to-night; she told me at dinneh that she 'llowed to go back to Widewood this evenin'." "I see in the papeh she 'llowed to go this mawnin'," said Clay Mattox. John showed apologetic amusement. "That's my fault, I reckon, I understood mother to say she couldn't stay this evening."
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