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Emma sank down on the edge of the couch with a little sigh of weariness. Gratefulness was in it, too. She looked up at him at the wrinkled, kindly, ape-like face, and he looked down at her. "William," she said, "war is a filthy, evil, vile thing, but it bears wonderful white flowers." "Yas'm!" agreed William, genially, and smiled all over his rubbery, gray-black countenance. "Yas'm!"
Then, Nautica spoke of how the very year that saw the beginning of free government in America saw the beginning of slavery too; and she asked Cornelius if he knew that the first coloured people were brought to America in 1619 and landed there at James Towne. "Yas'm; ev'ybody tole me 'bout dat. Seem like we got heah 'bout as soon as de white folks."
I knows jes' how slaves are ketched. Yas'm, I does. My mammy tole me. They gits folks in ships and carries 'em off an' sells 'em to folks. An' I ain' gwine to let 'em have you, Missy." There were tears in Estralla's eyes. She knew that her own brother had been sold the previous year and taken to a plantation in Florida. She had heard her mother say that she, Estralla, might be sold any time.
Fulton, and Sylvia went slowly to her own room where Estralla was waiting for her. The little colored girl had put the room in order; there was a bright fire in the grate, the morning sunshine filled the room, and Miss Molly and Polly, smiling as usual, were in the tiny chairs behind the little round table. "Dar's gwine to be war, Missy!" Estralla declared solemnly. "Yas'm.
"And when you get the steer broke," said Margaret, "I want you to make me an ash hopper." "Yas'm," replied the old negro, looking at her and then at Starbuck. "And then," said Jasper, "I want you to hive the bees." "And then," Margaret spoke up, "you may fix the loom." "Yas'm, fix de loom." "When that is done," said Starbuck, "you may rive some clap-boards to cover the spring house."
"You you white trash!" cried Mammy, bursting with indignation. "Who is you to come heah 'quiring fo' her! I ain't agwine " "Mammy!" "Yas'm! Yas, Miss Jinny." Mammy backed out of the door and clutched at her bandanna. "Mammy, what is all this noise about?" The torrent was loosed once more. "These heah men, Miss Jinny, was gwine f'r t' carry away all yo' pa's blongin's.
"Maria," she called, wondering what the old darky had done with it. There was no reply and Dolly called again louder. "Yas'm, I'se comin'," and the old cook came in at the back door of the kitchen. "What yo' want, honey? I spec' I jes' done drapped asleep fer a minute, settin' out dere in de sun. What is it, honey chile?" "Where's the cake, Maria?" "On de pantry shelf, whar yo' done left it.
This yere Norris had foun' out that Mistah Morse was shippin' gold from his mine to-day on the Fort Allison stage, and he gits yore paw to go in with him an' hold it up. Yore paw cussed and said as how 't wus his gold anyhow by rights." The girl went white and gave a little broken cry. "Oh, Jim! Are you sure?" "Yas'm, 'cose I'm suah. Them's his ve'y words. Hope to die if they ain't.
"I begs pardon, Mistress I begs pardon. Good-morning." "Good-morning " she hesitated. "Sykes Jim Sykes that's me." "Yes, I've heard of you, Mr. Sykes; you live over south of the swamp." "Yes, ma'am, that's me; and I'se got a little shack dar and a bit of land what I'se trying to buy." "Of Colonel Cresswell?" "Yas'm, of de Cunnel." "And how long have you been buying it?"
"The longer we can detain them the better for Captain Cary. You'd better come in yourself." "Yas'm," replied the faithful old man, although such action was farthest from his thoughts. "In des' a minnit. I'll be dar in des' a minnit." But once his mistress had closed the door behind her Uncle Billy's plan of operations changed.
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