St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-03
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$50 dey is, SAID Anal 3illy, Jan how purity
Miss Adelaide looks an how She talk to de
gentlemen an sweep 'roup her train, an walk
up an down kind O. glidelessly, an flirt her
fan an look out oh bbf;eyes ;ansMiss Mamie,
she jes stomp ,r9pn. AZ tsaG her cloes an act
like she was a boy. 'Twan't so bad when she
wus chile. But now, jes as you say, Mandy,
come to steddy it out, she mighty nigh
growed up, an faint No way to conduct.
Missus oughtnst to Flow it.4lbut like nuff she
can't take no pride in such humbly nieee.''
car tain't only y hum bNfiie said Maum
Mandy, "Miss Mamie is;so mighty on-pre-per-
sessin', OATS a fac.'lv eehiN s'r
whats dat you say?" queried Aunt Sally,
gravey. iaajc OF 1ci
i says she is .one preiper-sessin'." said
Maum Mandy. "Oie missus' dat waited
on when I fuss growed up, was a mighty
genteel talker, an when she had to say suffin'
about de appearances OBJ oder ladies', when
dey was 'scussin' 'em in de parior, she use to
kinder bow like dat and rub her hans SO, an
say, WAL yes, yes, ma am, is oblige to per-
fess dat she am sartinly raider on-pre-per-
sessn', raider on-pre- per- sessin'."
Aunt Sally nodded and appeared to repeat
the new word several times, under her breath,
then she said aloud:
''Yas, Miss Mamie am mighty on-pre-per-
sessin'; surely, nobody caun't care fur such
a on-pre-per- sessn' chile" Then she took
up her tray and departed, and I, furious with
rage and grief, flung myself down upon the
grass, and could, for the moment, have killed
those negresses where they stood. The hate
that was in my heart Just then was like the
hofa IF q 4 Tho
under my face with tears of rage, and I
plucked it up by handsful.
Aunt Sally had returned. She was empty
ing into a china bowl dish I dearly loved.
The fragrance came to me. There was new
pain in the thought that she did not care
whether 1 had any or not Her description
of her Indifference as to my ''piece," and the
contrast between at,and her tenderness for
my cousin, Leonora, bad a.dl,, given ven me wound
that was almost deadly. frs 90.
In the kitchen, had honor and respect as
'white folks as t.esyyopng miss which
never received elsewhere. I had believed
that I also had love, and I was very fond of
those old women, and {, when my uncle gave
me any small sum of spending money,
usually bestowed it upon them.
Ny heart beat heavily. That something in
the throat which is the first token of grief in
early YOUTH almost choked me. Was there
no hope anywhere2 No one, to give me a
word of comfort. II stretched my hands
toward the sky. where the splendid stars
shone so calmly and the crescent moon held
one great jewel in her. arms, 81 af.5
Worlds upon worlds had been told, but
all the same up there was Heaven where my
mother was. Did she know? If
81 cannot believe it.. I will not believe it,
whispered to myself, IT IT will not take the
word of Two ignorant. black servants. I
am among people who, cs fap only love them
selves. that IS all. will not believe that
am SO unprepossessing that in all the world
no one could love me. will go and look at
myself"
resolvedt to take a good, long look at
my own reflection, aud stossssde that must
stand before the only largeSmirror in the
house. ..:sss
Now, the faint light Of the moon and stars,
falling through the window I had opened.
mellowed and beaatided tile room
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