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Updated: June 11, 2025
Then they quickened, darkened, to shine with intelligence bewilderment memory and sudden wonderful joy. "Muvver Jane!" she whispered. "Oh, little Fay, little Fay!" cried Jane, lifting, clasping the child to her. "Now, we've got to rustle!" said Lassiter, in grim coolness. "Jane, look down the Pass!"
And, oddly enough, Uncle Marius always shut the door to Muvver's room when they came, and wouldn't let them, no matter how much they wanted to, go in and see Muvver, who was, she gathered, very sick.
While they were bending anxiously over him, he opened his eyes and said "Muvver." Just then she entered the hall and they could hear the congratulatory words of her friend. She had won. Then she started up the stairs. Let us draw the curtain, for on the altar of Fashion and Pleasure a mother has offered as a sacrifice, her child.
He thought a few minutes, as if reasoning with himself, and then the big gray eyes filled with tears, a very rare occurrence, as he seemed to feel that he could not yield, and he said, trying very hard to steady his voice, "Favver, I truly can't, I think it muvver inside, but you and I, we must say it Barbara," and I confess that my heart leaped with joy, and I begged Evan to let the matter end here.
His eyes travelled from her to the parson, who waited near her. She was in her street clothes now, the little brown Quakerish dress which she had chosen to wear so much since her return from the parsonage. "I guess I won't be makin' no mistake this time," he said, and he placed her hand in that of the parson. "Good-bye, Muvver Jim," faltered Polly.
Leighton's arms, and Mammy, grinning from ear to ear, caught him by one fat leg and demanded in soft negro tones: "Wha' fo' you call yo' mammy 'bad niggah, young Marster? Ho! ho! 'Go go good niggah! Did yo' hea' him, Mis' Ann?" Shenton and Natalie jumped up and down, with, cries of "Please, Mother," and "Muvver, oh, please!" Mrs. Leighton set Lewis on his feet between them.
She went to bed in her own little crib, and when she woke up she wasn't there at all, but in a big bed in a room at Aunt Julia's; and Aunt Julia was smiling at her, and hugging her, and saying she was so glad she had come to live with her and Uncle Marius for a while. Ariadne found out that Uncle Marius had brought her and Muvver the night before in a carriage all the way from Bellevue.
That was how she made her mother's heart ache. Anne was in terror for the time when Peggy would begin to see. For that, and for her own inability to teach her the stupendous difference between right and wrong. But one day Peggy ran to her mother, crying as if her heart would break. "Oh, muvver, muvver, kiss me," she sobbed. "I did kick daddy! Kiss me."
"Not even tell Muvver?" asked Mun Bun, looking almost scared. Yet the idea of a secret delighted him too. "Not till we get it all done. Then we will show her how fine it is," said Margy. "Where is your house?" asked Mun Bun. "You come along and I'll show you. I found it all by myself." She led Mun Bun by the hand out behind the big house and toward the quarters.
She could hear his sharp orders to the men. He was always short with the others when anything went wrong with her. "I'll bet 'Muvver Jim's' in the dumps," she murmured, as a cloud stole across the flower-like face; then the tired muscles relaxed, and she ceased to rebel. "Muvver Jim"? Douglas repeated, feeling that he must recall her to a knowledge of his presence.
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