Beadle's Dime Novels No. 33: Maum Guinea and Her Plantation Children — page 134: what you’re looking at

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124 : MAUM GUINEA. a single flash broke from under her drooping lashes, like the glitter of a dagger. “Will you go with me over to Colonel Fairfax’s, or will you stay here and be getting yourself ready for your jour- “ney?” asked Virginia, when ready to descend from her chamber, bright and beautiful as tasteful and loving hands “Pa like to go ‘long wid you, missus.” . «1 thought perhaps it would be better for you, and for him too, not to see him, Rose,” continued her mistress, gently. “Oh, no! no! I must see him, and Maum Ginny.” “If you wish it, you certainly shall. You can go over with us, and stay until we return. It will not take you long to arrange your little affairs here.” The slave-girl did not smile bitterly, with the mockery of the white nature, at the idea that people in her position, no matter how faithful their service, were not burdened by the - accumulation of many effects—her whole being was preoccu- pied by one- feeling, to the exclusion of ieee other less- absorbing passion. When they arrived at Colonel Fairfax’s, Rose went imme- diately to the cook’s cabin. “ Oh, Mammy!” The words: burst out-of her heart with a sudden cry; it was all she said as she sat down on the wooden stool by the table, covering her face with her shawl. The cook raised herself to her full height from over the savory dish she was preparing ; her black eyes seemed to shrink into half their size and double their intensity, as she fixed them upon the drooping form before her. “Ho! ho! L’spected as much.” “ Did you know it?” asked the visitor quickly, dropping ' comnicloooks. com