The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-11-16
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BY ALICE CAREY.
CHAP. VIH-Continued.

Timothy did not urge me to JOIN him, but
seeing probably that it would please me best to
be alone, pretended an ungovernable appetite,
greatly to my satisfaction.
He was scarcely gone when Doke entered
he had got another boy to keep his place, he
said, while he came to give me something.
"What?" / said. this ere little Bible, guess
it is he said, giving into my hand what seem
ed picture" it fell out of the pocket of Mr..
Richards, as he went for to go home with that
fine lady as was here-didn't you see her, and
wasn't she fine thought"
] said yes, but that | did not see that she
was fine; would not admit that. even to Doke.
81 b'leve somefen," said the boy, abruptly,
and grinning like fend, that rejoiced in the
pain he inflicted.
Perhaps looked something of my displeas-
ure--I don't know; for he added, shying away
from me-
"Will you hit if say it?"
. Certainly not say what YOU please
well, then. think Mr.. Richards is going to
get "a wife, and she is the one for to be ii" 90,
but amt Rose honored for to wait on her. /
speck if all the fine things you got on was give
to her, she wouldn't have EN-"
"Aint she fine, thought Ispech mabe she
lives in a palish, and has got an oven as big as
all this woods to bake her pies IN.
My impulse was to strike the boy dead at my
feet. 1t seemed to me that Satan had entered
into him to torment me, for every word he
spoke of the woman made me writhe and inly
groan. He seemed to apprehend my feeling,
for he said, siding toward the door" III go
for to take to nay heels-you'll bite me, I'm
afcared."
| said | was not well, but that quite
harmless and, with strange pcrversity, entreat-
"a him to remain and tell Inc all about the
lady-how she had come-when she had come
what people said of her-and if he had heard
Mr.. Richards say anything, and what it was.
have often thought that truth was omnipo-
tent to make itself felt, even upon the most
stold intellect, even upon the mute creation,
and know not but that it moves the dumb
stones to warn us when peril awaits. When
cattle near Ties handles, they grow madly wise !;
shadows, they say, cross our chambers when
death il near and is it not reasonable to be-
lieve, that when an evil worse than death threat
ems us, there should be given some premonltory
signs?
And so you think Mr.. Richards will marry
the great lady? asked, for could not but
regard it as miraculous interposition, to keep
me from further stumbling blindfold, that the
boy should have been impressed as he had
been.
Y he didn't say further what his convictions
were, but proceeded to expatiate on the fine
carriage in which she had come, and that the
mat on which she had set her feet was pref
tier color than my best shawl.
+" If she is going for to be what s,peck she
is going for to be" said the boy, and he eyed
me askancc as though he hardly dare say it,
Mr.. Richards's wife, you will have for to get
another place for to be a mistress in. p
"What makes you think so ?"
:" Suffen or other, do know what y and he
went on to say that, when l was walking up
the steps for to speak my piece, she was stand
ing just where he then stood, and a looking at
me and at Mr.. Richards, like as if her eyes was
dead sot.
Then she could not have looked very pref
ty," said.
She seemed to me" said he, g like she was
constable come for to take him and guess
be as she was after thought it, case he was all
of a trimble when she clutched holt of his
hand