"Oh, I won't tell! Is you a sho' enough 'oman?--Lawd, I knowd you wa'n't! No mo'n you is a man! I seen it f'om de beginnin'!"
"Why, boy, what do you imagine I am?"
"Oh, I don't 'magine, I knows! 'T'uz me prayed Gawd to sen' you. Y' ain't man, y' ain't 'oman! an' yit yo' bofe! Yo' de same what visit Ab'am, an' Lot, an' Dan'l, and de motheh de Lawd!"
"Stop! Stop! Never mind who I am; I've got to put you fifty miles from here before bedtime."
"Yes, my Lawd. Oh, yes, my Lawd!"
"Euonymus! you mustn't call me that!"
"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----"