Beadle's Dime Novels No. 33: Maum Guinea and Her Plantation Children — page 136: what you’re looking at

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126 - MAUM GUINEA. which soon put an end to it. Beyond offering a cup of coffee and a plate of dainties to Rose, she scarcely spoke ; and when her tasks were finished, sat down without tasting of food, and stared into the fire. Rose did not feel hurt by her manner; she knew that her own grief was working in Maum Guinea's breast almost as powerfully as in her own; and indeed, she was herself in a sort-of stupor, hardly real- izing the passing moments, but only wondering when Hyperion would enter ‘and speak with her. The brief winter twilight had descended when he did so. Shadows lurked in the corners of the cabin, éhased restlessly by tongues of light that seemed to seek to sting them, as the fire flashed up or sank apart. A vivid glare from the falling embers revealed the mulatto-man’s face, as he opened the door and stepped in, opposite to Rose. It was full of gloom and despair. _ With a great sob, she rose and threw herself upon his bosom; and there, for the first time. since she had learned her fate, tears came to her relief, and she wept out ‘the dreadful weight which had oppressed her all day, choking her throat and burning her eyelids. He passed his trembling hand again and again over her wavy, silken hair; he had no words of comfort, for there was no comfort in the world for them. He could not say “peace, when there was no peace.” A long while they stood thus, until her weeping became Jess vehement. 736 sound of music reached them, thrilling through the darkness, from the brilliantly-illuminated mansion “Come, Rose, Miss Virginia wants you in de dressing- ‘rooin.” “You come back here, chil’ren, fast chance you get,” said “Maum Guinea, as they went out. After they had left, she stirred up the fire, put on fresh fuel, put various dishes to warming, made a fresh pot of -eéffee, and set the little table with a good supper. It was, comicbooks.conm