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Meanwhile number one makes her way to the slop jar and forthwith
proceeds to wash her apron in it. Grandmother catches her by one
shoulder, drags her away, and sets the jar up out of her reach. By and
by the nurse comes up from her sweeping. I commit the children to her,
and finish cutting out the frocks.
But let this suffice, for of such details as these are all my days
made up. Indeed, my dear, I am but a mere drudge with few ideas beyond
babies and housekeeping. As for thoughts, reflections, and sentiments,
good lack! good lack!
I suppose I am a dolefully uninteresting person at present, but I hope
I shall grow young again one of these days, for it seems to me that
matters cannot always stand exactly as they do now.
Well, Georgy, this marriage is--yes, I will speak well of it, after
all; for when I can stop and think long enough to discriminate my head
from my heels, I must say that I think myself a fortunate woman both
in husband and children. My children I would not change for all the
ease, leisure, and pleasure that I could have without them. They are
money on interest whose value will be constantly increasing.
In 1839 Mrs. Stowe received into her family as a servant a colored
girl from Kentucky. By the laws of Ohio she was free, having been
brought into the State and left there by her mistress. In spite of
this, Professor Stowe received word, after she had lived with them
some months, that the girl's master was in the city looking for her,
and that if she were not careful she would be seized and conveyed back
into slavery.
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