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He took a deep draught; and then to drain the last drop, his hands touched hers and the shock of flesh first meeting flesh startled them both, while the water rained through. A moment their eyes looked deep into each other's a timid, startled gleam in hers; a wonder in his. Then she said dreamily: "We'se known us all our lives, and before, ain't we?" He hesitated.
"Folks ain't never satisfied with their mercies. Allers a' flyin' in the face uv Providence. I tell you we'se wurms, child; miserable, shiftless wurms, a' crawlin' down in this walley of humiliation, with our faces ter the dust." "But you've got a great deal to be thankful for, Mrs. Riggs," ventured Evadne, "in having such a daughter. Aunt Marthe thinks she is a splendid character."
Lawd, Lawd! is de ole missus dun gone?" "No, Aun' Sheba," said Clancy. "Help us revive her, and then help me carry her to a place of greater safety. You come like an angel of light." "I'se rudder hebby an' brack fer'n angel, but, like de angels, we'se all got ter do a heap ob totin' ter-night."
I don't keer notin' 'bout 'count books and sich, but ef we'se gwine to make a fort'n you got to hab a heap o' po'er in you'se arms. You got to hab a strong back and feel peart all ober. Dis de ony ting I 'sist on. Now how you gwine to be plump and strong?" "Oh, I'm pretty strong, and I'll get stronger now that I have hope, and see my way a little."
We'se got a dozen frozen soldiers in the baggage-car, some of 'em mighty bad, and they'se tryin' to make 'em comfortable until they get to the fort." "Soldiers frozen! Why do you take them in the baggage-car? such a barn of a place! Why weren't they brought here, where we could make them warm and care for them?" exclaimed Mrs. Rayner, in impulsive indignation.
Ah, my people! my poor little people! they misses me these days, because they is shadowy things that sing and smell and bloom in dark and terrible nights " Miss Taylor started up. "Zora, I believe you're crazy!" she cried. But Zora was looking at her calmly again. "We'se both crazy, ain't we?" she returned, with a simplicity that left the teacher helpless.
Jes nuffin'. Der ain't no mo' use o' fightin' dan ob tryin' ter butt down 'simmons off a foot-an'-a-half tree wid yer head. It don't make no sort o' matter 'bout our rights. Co'se we'se got a right ter vote, an' hold meetin's, an' be like white folks; but we can't do it ef dey's a mind ter stop us. An' dey is dat berry ting! "Nimbus sez he's gwine ter fight, an' 'Liab sez he's gwine ter pray.
"Look here, Aun' Sheba," said the lively girl, "you're not well, or else something is troubling you. You looked down-hearted yesterday, and you look funereal now." "We'se been sot on," said Aun' Sheba solemnly. "'Sot on! good gracious! Aun' Sheba, what do you mean?" "Well, dey sot on my ole man, an' husband an' wife am me.
The folks as we'se a-workin' for said we must be plaguey keerful about the deetecters. I'll bet nun on 'em can't play it on my wife tho'. If they dew, they'll have to git up arly in the mornin'." With that he thrust his head out of the window, and yelled: "Sue, Sue!"
"Dat's right," said Graham's conveyance; "wash away right smart, and dunno nothin'. Yer see," he continued, "dis yer is Sunday, and we'se not in de fields, an de women folks can help us;" and Graham though that the old superstition of a Sabbath has served him well for once.
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