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"If it is a patient," Phillis said, who did not wish to go yet, "I will wait in the dining-room." And she rose. Before she could leave the room, Joseph entered. "Doctor Balzajette," he said. "You see!" Phillis cried. Without replying, Saniel made a sign to Joseph to admit Doctor Balzajette, and while Phillis silently disappeared, he went toward the parlor.
He had had a dozen copies of this photograph, but as his relatives were few, he kept the majority of them. One he sent to his mother, who was living at that time; another went to the priest of his village, and later he had given one to Phillis. He must, then, have nine in his possession. He found them and burned them immediately.
Bacchus was quite discomposed again, but he said in an appealing voice to his wife, "Phillis, I couldn't stand it; when Miss Alice was so low, you was busy, and could be a doin somethin for her; but what could I do? Here I sot all night a cryin, a thinkin about her and young master. I 'spected for true she was gwine to die; and my blessed grief! what would have come of us all.
Mammy Phillis had followed her mistress to the tomb, six months after her removal from her beloved cottage to the despised "quarters." She never held up her head from the day of her degradation, died from a broken heart, murmured those who best knew her of a "fit of spleen," said Mrs. Aylett, in cool reprehension of her unmannerly vassal. Mabel had guarded the mystery well.
Come, honey," and she reached out her hand to Nina, who, jumping again upon Arthur's knee, clung to him closely, exclaiming, "No, no, old Phillis; Nina's good Nina'll stay with Miggie!" and as if fancying that Edith would be a surer protector than Arthur, she slid from his lap and running to the sofa where Edith sat, half hid herself behind her, whispering, "Send her off send her off.
It was almost a relief to think that for this evening, at least, it would not be to Phillis, for at this moment she would be at his rooms, anxiously awaiting his return. He felt a sadness and a revulsion at the thought that she might be the first to learn the truth. He did not wish that, and he would prevent it.
When the day came the sun was very hot; they had walked some distance, when Phillis expressed a wish to rest for a few minutes. They seated themselves in a shady copse, and soon found themselves in each other's arms. Since then Saniel had never spoken of marriage, and neither had Phillis. They loved each other. Saniel was still at work when Phillis returned. "You have not yet finished, dear?"
The strong walk alone because they need no one. And he needed a woman; and so great was the need that it was through her only, near her, when he looked at her, when he listened to her, that he experienced a little calm. Was he weak and cowardly on account of this? Perhaps not, but only human. Because he felt calm when with Phillis, Saniel wished that she might never leave him.
Among his romances may be mentioned Euphues' Shadow, Forbonius and Prisceria , and Rosalynde, Euphues' Golden Legacie . His poems include Glaucus and Scilia , Phillis honoured with Pastoral Sonnets, Elegies, and Amorous Delights . Rosalynde, his best known work, and the source from which Shakespeare is said to have drawn As you like It, was written to beguile the tedium of a voyage to the Canaries.
This, and nothing else, determined me not to give it place in the public prints. "If you should ever come to Cambridge, or near head-quarters, I shall be happy to see a person so favored by the Muses, and to whom Nature has been so liberal and beneficent in her dispensations. "I am, with great respect, your obedient servant, "GEORGE WASHINGTON. "Miss Phillis Wheatley."
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