He slackened his pace a little, with the idea that she might come out to meet him; but when he entered the parlor, she was still occupied with her work.

She rose on his entrance, and moved a chair toward him; and when he said, half timidly, "How do you do now, dear Rosa ?" she quietly replied, "Much better, I thank you.

I have sent for you, Mr.Fitzgerald, to ask a favor." "If it is anything in my power, it shall be granted," he replied.
"It is a very easy thing for you to do," rejoined she, "and very important to me.

I want you to give me papers of manumission." "Are you so afraid of me ?" he asked, coloring as he remembered a certain threat he had uttered.
"I did not intend the request as any reproach to you," answered she, mildly; "but simply as a very urgent necessity to myself.

As soon as my health will permit, I wish to be doing something for my own support, and, if possible, to repay you what you expended for me and my sister." "Do you take me for a mean Yankee," exclaimed he indignantly, "that you propose such an account of dollars and cents ?" "I expressed my own wishes, not what I supposed you would require," replied she.