Beadle's Dime Novels No. 33: Maum Guinea and Her Plantation Children — page 86: what you’re looking at

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80 MAUM GUINEA. life of idleness, and be decked out in all the finery her tropic taste coveted. Yes, Rose herself might choose it! All kinds of fears pressed gipon him, until he felt sinking, and leaned against the casement for support. It was his affianced herself who opened the door. She knew they would come to Sophy’s first, and she was already ‘there, waiting them. How handsome she looked! So gay, so happy, so proud—for she was dressed in her best, and her mistress had given a new brooch for a holiday present—a great, gold brooch, with a bit of paste-brilliant in the center which sparkled with the rise and fall of her shapely breast. She knew she was looking well; her lover almost shrunk hefére the blaze of her beauty; there was just that dash of coquetry, that bewitching coolness, showing through sunny breadths of smiles, which a handsome woman can afford to assume, and which it requires no refinement of schools to teach her—it is her nature, white or black, rich or poor. “ She don’no nuffin "bout it yet, dat’s clar,” whispered Maum Guinea, in an aside as they entered, “and don’t you tell her any ting just now. You and she be as happy as yer can, once more, anyhow ; and perhaps it'll all be right yit Ill go out and speak to Massa Bell w’en I gets a good chance.” Happy! Yes, even with all that dark doubt of the future, the mulatto-man experienced a° perhaps even more intense pleasure in the society of the woman he loved; his eyes followed every movement of her lithe form; he smiled at all she did and said; and if he did not talk much, Rose knew that he felt much, for she read the language of his eyes. It was so pleasant in Sophy’s large, light kitchen. She had invited Johnson, and two or three others, also; her guests were sitting about, laughing and talking so naturally, that Hyperion began to feel as if he had had a bad dream, “and was just waking up to his every-day experience. eComnieloOolkS.conrn