Yass, SAH!--dey's ten o' dese hyah vergims dar, five of 'em sleepin' an' five of 'em watchin', an' a-takin' tuhns at hit, an' mebby dat how-come free or fouah dey bes' young colo'hed mens been projickin' aroun' dar all arternoon, a-helpin' dem dat's a-waitin' twell de bridegroom COM eth!" We seen a little knot of them, down the road there in front of the church, gathering around the nigger that had been with Sam.

They all starts toward us.

But one man steps out in front of them all, and turns toward them and holds his hands up, and waves them back.

They all stops in their tracks.
Then he turns his face toward us, and comes slow and sollum down the road in our direction, walking with a cane, and moving very dignified.
He was a couple of hundred yards away.
But as he come closeter we gradually seen him plainer and plainer.

He was a big man, and stout, and dressed very neat in the same kind of rig as white bishops wear, with one of these white collars that buttons in the back.