Beadle's Dime Novels No. 33: Maum Guinea and Her Plantation Children — page 52: what you’re looking at

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46 , MAUM GUINEA. “Dat she did, massa; dat she did indeed, sir,” answered Rose, with emphasis, she haying come into the room with a bouquet of flowers, in time to -overhear the question. “De handsomest young lady dar, by all odds. Dar’s more’n one tought so—Massa Philip Fairfax for one, and here’s his com- plemens, brought, by ’Perion, and dese yere flowers, out de hot-house” = : Virginia blushed so violently as she took the bouquet, as to fix the eyes’of her mother suspiciously upon her ; however, she had nothing serious to fear from the scrutiny, for she knew that Philip was a fayorite with her parents, and ‘that there were none of those hateful financial difficulties in the way, which disturb so many matches otherwise “ made in heaven.” Hardly was the midday breakfast over, before the promised visitor appeared. But Virginia had ample time to attend to her toilet fer the dinner, before she was summoned to the parlor, as her father and Mr. Talfierro had a long business- talk in the library, while she was dressing. In the mean time, Rose had very provukingly been called away, just in the midst of arranging her mistress’ hair, to bring cigars and sherry into the library, when there were plenty of other ser- vants who might have deme that service just as well. It was very senenie of Paps ety end: Philip at ¥ every moment. = Comichooks: com