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Updated: June 23, 2025
"Yessum, SO! Bet he got his pockets pack' full o' twenty-dolluh gol' pieces right iss minute!" "You right, honey!" William allowed the coldness of his faint smile to increase to become scornful. These poor sidewalk creatures little knew what seethed inside the alabaster of the young Augustan noble!
"I done tuck mah troubles to de Lawd, whichin He 'bleeged ter know I cyant deal wid ol' Mis' Scarlett an' de Doctor. Missis, I prayed!" "Oh! And what happened then?" The old man looked around him, cautiously, and lowered his voice: "Wellum, Mis' Scarlett she tuck an' went an' up an' died. Yessum! She done daid.
"Good evening, Miss Carstairs. I bear refreshment for your little friend. What a magnificent evening for Hare and Reform, isn't it?" She turned, startled at the sound of his voice, looked at him, and looked at once away. "Oh ... yes, indeed. I am waiting for Mr. Hare now. Jenny, are you sure you haven't seen him come out?" "Yessum," said Jenny, her eyes all for the tall stranger.
I say, 'Who de name er Gawd in ol' Mis' Scarlett's pahlor, when dey ain't nobody in it? I look thoo de haidge, an' dey's one weenchy light in de room, an' whilst I'm lookin', it goes out! An' de pianner, she's a-playin' right along! Yessum, de pianner, she's er tingalingin' by 'erself in de middle o' de night!" "And who was playing it, Uncle Adam?"
The other two stepped out to help enjoy the conversation and the scenery. "You know me?" she demanded. "Yessum, we shore do. My name's Despard Jet here and Cope." She acknowledged the introductions. "I've friends down here," she said, with a little catch of her breath. "I was wondering if you any of you gentlemen had seen them?" "Your man, Gus Carline an' that writin' feller, Terabon?"
"Yessum we believed ha'nts would be at de grave yard. I didn' pay no' tention to dem tho', for I know de evil spirit is dere. Iffen you don't believe it, let one of 'em slap you. I ain't seed one, but I'se heard 'em. I seed someone, dey said was a ghos', but it got 'way quick. "When we got sick de doctor come at once, and Mistiss was right dere to see we was cared fer. A doctor lived on our place.
I'm glad Mandy made a good many," said Beth calmly. "Why Beth!" said her mother horrified. "Yessum, she has," continued Beth. "I've passed them four times, and she took one every time. I've had five!" she concluded. In the afternoon the postman brought them a letter from their Cousin Gladys, who was in Paris with her father and mother. So they all gathered around mother to hear it.
"Oh, but not the boys," protested Miss Drayton. "Yessum boys and girls and pa and me all of us," insisted Mrs. Callahan. "Lump us so as to make it splendiferous. Oh, bless you, 'tain't for us. It's for the little girl that lent us the loan of her doll to get Lois to take her medicine. And the doll got ruint.
We was put under dem beds 'bout eight o'clock, an' we'd jes better not say nothin' er make no noise afte' den. All de cullud folks slep' on croker sacks full of hay er straw. "Did I ever see any niggers punished? Yessum, I sho' has. Whupped an' chained too. Day was whupped 'til de blood come, 'til dey back split all to pieces.
"Well, yessum, dat's partly it," said the fat cook. "We's got t' hab eggs, an' other things too." "Bert and Harry can walk to the village," said Mr. Bobbsey. "It isn't far from here. I'll go part way with them. So don't worry, Dinah." "Oh, dat isn't all dat's worryin' me, Massa Bobbsey. But did yo' say de chillums could hab dem corn muffins whut was left over?" and she looked at Mrs. Bobbsey.
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