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Dinsmore; "our greatest, almost our only objection to your suit being the thought of parting with the child of our love." When Violet came home that evening she did not rejoin the family in the parlor, but went directly to her own apartments. "Where is mamma?" she inquired of her maid as she threw off her hat and cloak. "In de parlor, Miss Wi'let." "Are the children in bed and asleep?"
I can't have one minute of happiness till I have done so and got a kiss of forgiveness." Snatching a hat from the rack and putting it on as she went, she ran out and round the porches and the grounds; but nowhere was he to be seen. "Miss Lu," called a servant, at length, "is you lookin' fo' de cap'n? He's done gone to Ion, I 'spects; kase dere's whar Miss Wi'let went in de kerridge."
There were servants also, some few of the old and some new ones, each and all eager for a handshake and a few words of greeting from "Miss Wi'let and the cap'en and dere chillens," in which they were not disappointed.
A couple of negro men were carrying in its counterpart at one door, as Violet and her brother entered at the other. "Ah that's a fine tree, Jack!" she said addressing one of them; "the captain selected it, I suppose?" "Yes, Miss Wi'let, de cap'n done say dis hyar one was for de Woodburn chillen; an' we's to watch an' fotch 'em in soon's dey's clar gone out ob sight."
At its head they met Agnes, their mamma's maid. "I'se to help yo' dress, Miss Lu and Miss Gracie," she said. "Miss Wi'let tole me so, and I'se laid out yo' things on yo' beds." "What things? What dress for me?" asked Lulu sharply. "De cream-colored cashmere, what Miss Wi'let corrected me to." Lulu laughed. "Directed, you mean, Agnes. You may tie my sash when I'm ready.
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