Beadle's Dime Novels No. 33: Maum Guinea and Her Plantation Children — page 88: what you’re looking at

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82 MAUM GUINEA. Another pang shot through her lover's heart at these - _ laughing words. She had wished for a silk dress, the foolish, giddy thing, amd bashes she would have one sooner than she expected. After supper, Maum Guinea slipped out, and was absent half an hour, while the rest of the company sat about, laugh- ing and singing, the girls helping their hostess to wash up the dishes. and put the room to rights.. The work was all finished, and the party gathered about the firelight in a half- circle, when Maum Guinea returned. “He’s partly promised—I'm pretty sartain it'll be right,” she whispered in answer to the mute question in Hyperion’s eyes. iF The words. pierced through him, like arrows of sunshine, with a sharp joy. . He had so much confidence in the woman that he felt almost free from apprehension ; he squeezed Rose's hand, so that she cried out, to the jest and amusement of the rest ; he immediately began to talk, to tell funny stories, and to sing his best songs in his “happiest manner.” Rose grew very proud of him, he was so witty, such a splendid singer— her eyes glanced triumphantly from him to the company, 2s much as to ask, “ Who has such a nice young man as I has?” When he had exhausted his sudden flow of jollity, the visitors began to press Sophy for the story she had partly promised them. She seemed reluctant, but finally said : [ORM LAS Pain Se ees tes my story.” To their satisfaction the lot fell to her. “ Suthin about yerself, you know—suthin true, the way we “Tf I tell you any thing "bout myself, you must all promise \ to nebber, nebber tell to noboddy what you hear in dis room conniclooolks.comnn