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Updated: May 3, 2025
So the parish comed an' brought a coffin an' tookt her, pore dear. And I've cried myself stupid-like, bein' her pore mother as 'es lost her on'y darter an' I was just a-tryin' to make myself comfable when this 'ere young toff as seems so werry drunk comes a-rappin' at my door fit to rap the 'ouse down. 'Has she been buried at all? How can a spiritual body be buried? "Buried at all?"
"Na'mi used to take a glass o' beer wi' her meals, I remember. Well, as I was agoin' to tell you, havin' got out o' the boat, I'd just sense enough left to clamber up above high-water mark, an' there I sat starin' stupid-like an' wonderin' how I'd done it.
While she might not "star stupid-like," she could so coldly ignore all reference to Scoville's escape as to embarrass any one who sought to connect her with it. In the clearer consciousness of her feeling toward the Union officer her heart grew glad and strong at the thought of the service she had rendered him, nor did it shrink at suffering for his sake.
Of course she was sick; she drooped in the August heat; they didn't think she was very sick; the master gave her some medicine one night, and left her sleeping, quiet as a lamb, and before morning came she went to heaven." "Who was the master, Chloe?" "Why, you is getting stupid-like, child!
"He stared stupid-like, but didn't speak. "Then she look at him hard. "`You've got to do it, she says, speaking low, but very firm; and out he comes with, `Here, I'll give 'ee a hundred. But before I had time to say `Done, she went on: `No this young man says no; I can see it in his face; he don't think 'tis enough; you try him with a hundred and twenty.
'No, I can't, says 'e, 'by God, I can't. And before the soldier could speak, he'd dragged him down our cabin stairs, and shoved 'im into 'is own bunk and chucked the covers over 'im. Then 'e come up to where I was standin' in the moonlight. 'What ever you done that for? says I. 'Why not 'a give 'im up to serve 'im out for what 'e done to our Pretty? He looked at me stupid-like.
'She sits that way the whole day, the good woman whispered to me, 'and there's no rousing her; she seems gone stupid-like. I went up to her and told her my errand, saying that the money I put in her hand was from the little girl who came with me, and who was anxious to contribute something to help her in her sore need. She looked at me, at the girl, and then at the money, and muttered
"A relapse?" said Cynthia quickly. "Yes, a relapse. They've had a hospital-nurse for him, I hear. He's not raving now, they say, but very weak and stupid-like." "Have none of his friends come to nurse him?" said Cynthia. "I don't know. The gardener wouldn't hear that, maybe. He said there'd been a death in the family some child or other. Would that be General Vane's little boy, do you suppose?"
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