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For some days this "lady" had been Widewood's only cook, owing to the fact that Mrs. March's servant, having a few nights before seen a man prowling about the place, had left in such a panic as almost to forget her wages, and quite omitting to leave behind her several articles of the Widewood washing. Within the house John March sat reading newspapers.
Tombs?" "Oh, we keep a-goin', thank the Lawd. Brother March, I've got pow'ful good news." "Is it something about my mother? She was here about an hour ago." "Yass, it is! The minute she got back to ow house and O, John, it jest seems to me like her livin' with us ever since Widewood was divided up has been a plumb providence!
March Jane seemed made of angelic "yass'ms," and agreed, with a strange, sweet readiness to go to Widewood and assume her duties in her mistress's absence, which would be for a few days only. "And you'll go" "yass'm" "with my son" "yass'm" "in the buggy" "yass'm" "and begin work" "yass'm" "just as though" "yass'm" "I were there" "yass'm." Mrs.
As far as I am concerned, I can afford to deny myself all the reprisals, and revenges too, that litigations could ever give me. I've got sixty acres of Widewood to begin over with By Jo'! Garnet, himself, began with less!" He let go a feverish laugh. "If I come to that," he added, "I've got, besides, a love of study and a talent for teaching, two things he never had."
The informant's booziness had returned. One foot kept slipping from a spoke of the fore-wheel. With pretence of perplexity he examined the wheel. "Mr. Mahch, this wheel sick; she mighty sick; got to see blacksmiff befo' she can eveh see Widewood." John looked. The word was true. He swore. The mulatto snickered, sagged against it and cocked his face importantly. "Mr.
"It's my wedding, too," he soliloquized. "This Widewood business and I are married this day; it alone, to me alone, till it's finished. Garnet shall see whether humph! Jake, my horse and buggy!" And soon he was rattling back down the stony slopes toward his mother. "Hope of Suez!" he grimly laughed. "We'll be its despair if we don't get something done. And I've got to do it alone.
"No, seh! no, seh! I means a country what's good faw a po' man, an' Widewood cayn't even be that 'ithout school-houses, seh! But thass what me an' you can make it, Mr. March. Why, thass the hence an' the whence that my constituents an' coefficients calls me School-house Leggett. Some men cusses me that I has mix' the races in school. Well, supposin' I has a little; I'se mix' myseff.
Presently she turned upon the two horsemen a pair of unaggressive but invincible eyes, saying, languorously, "Mr. March, I want you to show Widewood to Mr. Fair to-morrow. Pop-a's been talking about showing it to him, but I want him to see it with just you alone." To Fair there always seemed a reserve of merriment behind Miss Garnet's gravity, and a reserve of gravity behind her brightest gayety.
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