Beadle's Dime Novels No. 33: Maum Guinea and Her Plantation Children — page 19: what you’re looking at

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HYPERION IN A QUANDARY. 18 still in the fayorable mood. _ That young gentleman was leaning against a pillar of the veranda, looking off in the direction of Judge Bell's plantation, and smiling as if he saw a certain beautiful face through all the intervening space; he looked handsome, with that expression in his features, though _ he was not a particularly handsome man. His complexion was sallow and his features irregular; but his hair was ooo te eunmnnne mene Ant hie. St fOn se pleasing. Hyperion—he. hadgtven Wils-fanoiful. name to his valet, on account of his flowing curls, purple and shining, and with scarcely a trace of the original wiry kink— subdued his whistle, approaching his master with the air of one who has a favor to ask. “ How now ?” asked the latter, pleasantly, when he finally perceived him, after he had stood several moments near him. “Speak out, what is it ?” “Oh, Massa’ Philip—” here the valet stopped, shuffling his foot on the ground; a vision of the coquettish turban again inspired his courage, and he proceeded: “Oh, massa, nex’ week comes Cris’mas, you know, and I 'spec’s—’spec’s—” “ What, you rascal! you haven't come to me to beg spend- ing-money, have you? It’s only last week I gave you five dollars, and you ought to have a hundred dollars of your own by this time. Can’t afford to have you so extravagant—I really can’t,”—and the young gentleman shook his head gravely. ah St “Oh, Massa Philip, ‘taint de Cris'mas money—I's_ got plenty ; it’s—it’s—” “ Been playing off any your old tricks, ha?” “No, massa; but you see-it’s comin’ Cris'mas,and I.was a Cinking..aechew Masse Feiriax be donne tJeh any. his people go ’way from home to get married.” 7 Comichbooks-com ;