Beadle's Dime Novels No. 33: Maum Guinea and Her Plantation Children — page 85: what you’re looking at

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. o * —————ESE Ee —S - 2 ROSE AND HYPERION. 79 finished his repast, and had fallen to whistling softly, looking out the window, and thitking about his betrothed, “won't you speak to Miss Virginny about Rose, yerself ?” . “Yes, yes, I'll speak to her, if that'll satisfy you. But. what good will it do? It isn’t likely Miss Virginia will have much to say about it. Of course she will want to keep her dressing-maid, if it’s possible. She'll coax her bear of a papa” sweetly, without any asking, I'll warrant you. But if he's bound to make a good bargain, J can’t help it, Hyperion, my boy. It's my policy to be as agreeable as possible just at present ; it wouldn’t look well for me to presume to interfere in family matters, already ; don’t you see? ha! ha end he laughed softly. : This was too reasonable to be denied; and it was not the province of a slave to argue with his master—so Hyperion held his peace. Late in the afternoon he and Maum Guinea set out for the Bell plantation. He had promised Rose to visit her, Sabbath evening. ‘Sophy, the housekeeper, whom we have before mentioned, had invited both them and Maum Guinea to take tea with her, inher kitchen; it was her turn to“ treat,” she said; they had accepted her invitation with alacrity, knowing they should have a good time; for Sophy was only inferior to Maum Guinea herself, in the art of cooking, and being stew- ardess of the establishment, she could afford to give them a fine supper upon so important an occasion as Christmas week. As they knocked at Sophy’s door, the young man’s teart sunk and felt cold within him. He had not seen Rose since this awful shadow had fallen between them ; he did not know whether she was yet-apprised of her danger; he did not know, he almost feared, that the girl might want to accept of the brilliant lot in store for her, as the fayored slave of so wealthy and handsome a man, with whom she could leat conmmiclooolkks. conn)