"I didn't say they puked into the glass. I said they spat into it."
"It's all one, Master Rodney, and give me my doll."
"I won't. Give me my cat."
"I won't. My doll."
"My cat."
They tugged at the doll and cat. Rodney's mother threw her arms around them, and said soothingly: "My Rodney and his little sweetheart, Mary!"
TESNEY, THE DECEIVED
Tesney, the frail, the good, the beautiful mulatto, was known of child, man, woman, and beast.