She performed her duties faithfully and silently, she gave no trouble, and showed a gentle subservience and humbleness towards the white servants which won immense approbation.

Her manner towards Mrs.
Cupp's self was marked indeed by something like a tinge of awed deference, which, it must be confessed, mollified the good woman, and awakened in her a desire to be just and lenient even to the dark of skin and alien of birth.
"She knows her betters when she sees them, and has pretty enough manners for a black," the object of her respectful obeisances remarked.

"I wonder if she's ever heard of her Maker, and if a little brown Testament with good print wouldn't be a good thing to give her ?" This boon was, in fact, bestowed upon her as a gift.

Mrs.Cupp bought it for a shilling at a small shop in the village.

Ameerah, in whose dusky being was incorporated the occult faith of lost centuries, and whose gods had been gods through mystic ages, received the fat, little brown book with down-dropped lids and grateful obeisance.