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The Flower of the Chapdelaines by George Washington Cable
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"Ain't dat what Ab'am called you?"

"I forget! but--call me mistress!--only!"

"Yass, suh--yass, mi'ss!"

"Good. Now, lad, I can take you alone, horseback, which'll be far
swifter, safer, surer----"

A new alarm, a new exaltation--"Oh, no, my--mist'ess; no, no! you knows
you on'y a-temptin' o' dy servant!"

"You wouldn't leave daddy and mammy?"

"Oh, daddy kin stick to mammy, an' her to he! but Robelia got neither
faith nor gumption, an' let me never see de salvation o' de Lawd ef I
cayn't stick by dat--by--by my po' Robelia!"

"But suppose, my boy, we should be mistaken for runaways and tracked
and run down."

"Yass'm, o' co'se. Yass'm."

"Can you fight--for your sister?"

"Yass, my La'--yass'm, I kin an' I will. I's qualified my soul to'
dat, suh; yass'm."

"Dogs?"

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