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I gin her only harsh words and cross looks." Then as his wife’s tears mingled with his, he took her hand, saying, "Don’t take on so, Nancy, you’ve nothin’ to cry for. You’s always good to her and kind o’ took up for her when I got sot ag’in her." Mrs.
"I s’pose you’s one of the niggers?" said Aunt Dilsey. "Why, yes," returned Rondeau; "but then I was helpin’ and was tryin’ to push them all back so I could get to marster, who was feelin’ so bad that they sent for me, because nobody else could comfort him." Here Rondeau began to fumble in his pocket, as if in search of something.
When pressed to give a reason for this apparent disinclination of the negroes to work for the Hosmers, Nathan, who was at the moment being interviewed on the front veranda by Thérèse and Melicent, spoke out. “Dey ’low ’roun’ yere, dat you’s mean to de black folks, ma’am: dat what dey says I don’ know me.” “Mean,” cried Melicent, amazed, “in what way, pray?”
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