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Just at this critical juncture a young lady entered the room, and held up her hands in horror, and baby hastened off as fast as her toddling limbs could carry her, and buried her face in her mother's lap in great consternation. Emily Garie made two or three slight feints of an endeavour to catch her, and then sat down by the little one's mother, and gave a deep sigh.
"Here," replied Clarence, "she's lying here." On opening a small window, they saw Mrs. Garie lying in a corner stretched upon the boards, her head supported by some blocks. "She's asleep," said Clarence. "Mother mother," but there came no answer. "MOTHER," said he, still louder, but yet there was no response.
Stevens, with an assured look. "I am the first cousin of Mr. Garie!" "You his first cousin? it is impossible!" said Walters. "You'll discover it is not only possible, but true I am, as I said, Mr. Garie's first cousin!" "If you are that, you are more," said Walters, fiercely "you're his murderer!" At this charge Mr. Stevens turned deathly pale.
There now remain of the family but two persons old John or Jack Garie as he is called, a bachelor and who I have recently learned is at the point of death; and a crack-brained nephew of his, living in this city said to be married to a nigger woman actually married to her. Dr. Blackly informed me last week, that he sent for him to perform the ceremony, which he very properly refused to do.
"I think," said Mr. Garie, "I can show you at least one exception, and that too without much trouble. Sarah," he cried, "bring me a light." "Oh," said Mrs. Stevens, "I suppose you refer to Walters it is true he is an exception; but he is the only coloured person I ever saw that could make the least pretension to anything like refinement or respectability. "Let me show you another," said Mr.
"Remove her! what for? I thought I heard you say, Jule, that the child got on excellently well there, that she improved very fast?" "So she does, as far as learning is concerned; but she is sitting right next to one of those Garie children, and that is an arrangement I don't at all fancy.
Garie, half-provoked, yet compelled to smile at the boy's pompous wit, "you know what I mean; I cannot find the number I wish; the street is not correctly numbered." "The street is not numbered at all," rejoined the boy, "but the houses are," and he skipped lightly away. Mr. Garie was finally set right about the numbers, and found himself at length before the door of Mr. Walters's house.
Northward, where the chain of hills was broken, the waters of the river would be brilliant with waves of gold long after the other parts of it were shrouded in the gloom of twilight. Mr. and Mrs. Garie sat looking at the children, who were scampering about the garden in pursuit of a pet rabbit which had escaped, and seemed determined not to be caught upon any pretence whatever.
Garie reflected more and more on the probable beneficial results of the project, his original disinclination to it diminished, until he finally determined on running the risk; and he felt fully rewarded for this concession to his wife's wishes when he saw her recover all her wonted serenity and sprightliness.
The reverend gentleman gazed with some surprise at the party assembled. Mr. Garie was so thoroughly Saxon in appearance, that no one could doubt to what race he belonged, and it was equally evident that Emily, Mrs. Ellis, and her husband, were coloured persons. Dr. Blackly looked from one to the other with evident embarrassment, and then said to Mr. Garie, in a low, hesitating tone:
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