I loved her and she loved me; and when you have said that you have said a good deal; you have said about all there is to say.
And I felt that I wuz glad enough that I could take holt and help take care on her, and win her back to health and strength agin, if it lay in human power.
There wuz a tall, handsome girl in the room when I went in, and I spozed, from her ladylike mean, that she wuz one of the neighbors, and she wuz there a neighborin’ with my daughter Maggie, for she seemed to be a doin’ everything she could to help.
And I spozed, and kep’ on a spozin’ for more than a hour, that she wuz a neighborin’, till after she went out of the room for a few minutes, Maggie said she wuz a young colored girl, a “quadroon” she called her, that she had hired to help take care of Snow.
Sez I in deep amaze:
“That girl colored?”
“Yes,” sez Maggie.
“Wall,” sez I, “she is handsomer than any girl I ever sot eyes on that wuz oncolored.”
“Yes,” sez Maggie, “Genny is a beautiful girl, and jest as good as she is pretty.”
“Wall,” sez I, “that is sayin’ a good deal.”