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Updated: June 5, 2025
"When I see you beginning to help your poor, exhausted mother, and running messages for that overworked slavey I think you call her Maria then perhaps I'll do less. And when there's some one else to mend the boys' socks, perhaps I won't offer; but until there is, the less you say about such things the better, Miss Alice Tennant."
Two of her mistresses, one after the other, had been sold up, and now all the rooms in the neighbourhood were unlet, no one wanted a "slavey," and Esther was obliged to return home. It was on the last of these occasions that her father had taken her by the shoulders, saying "No lodging-houses that want a slavey? I'll see about that. Tell me, first, have you been to 78?"
If the dreams could have faded into blankness and all have passed with the passing of the night, how he could have thanked whatever gods there be! Only not to awake only not to awake! But he had awakened. The clock struck nine as he did so, consequently he knew the hour. The lodging-house slavey had aroused him by coming to light the fire.
Tamaku at once began to ask him questions, which he answered with apparent readiness in the same language, differing but slightly in sound. "Can you make out how he came to be among the natives?" asked the commander, when Tamaku and the boy had ceased speaking. "He not know much," answered the Kanaka; "long time wid dem say dey find him in a boat at sea, and bring him here and make him slavey."
But although neither Clarice nor Rachel could understand his language, they saw very clearly that he greatly required food. "Come along, den," said Rachel; "you shall hab some in de twinkle ob an eye, as soon as we get home. Missie Clarice, me carry de pitcher, or Indian fancy you white slavey;" and Rachel laughed at her own wit.
We sometimes think it would be a fortunate thing for him if they allowed her to marry and settle down quietly with the hero. She might make a man of him in time. There are two types of servant-girl to be met with on the stage. This is an unusual allowance for one profession. There is the lodging-house slavey.
Then, for a time, she paused in thought, while the slavey lost herself in dreams that, possibly, she had been serving and been worshiping a real princess.
"An' don't you never tyke no coals to 'em that you don't tell abaht you 'ear?" The slavey promised, but the seed was sown.
But although neither Clarice nor Rachel could understand his language, they saw very clearly that he greatly required food. "Come along, den," said Rachel; "you shall hab some in de twinkle ob an eye, as soon as we get home. Missie Clarice, me carry de pitcher, or Indian fancy you white slavey;" and Rachel laughed at her own wit.
Whatever the major's inward feelings may have been, however, he successfully concealed them as he rang the bell of the rival lodging-house and inquired of the servant whether Mrs. Scully was at home. "Yes, sir, she is," said the slavey, with a frightened bob, which was a tribute to the major's martial mien and gorgeous attire.
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