so after blaring out she walked
away" -- +
["+" refers to reference mark in margin] "When dinner-time came,"
she continued
"I offered the child a part of mine
I had no right to take Madam's food &
give to her, & I didnot -- but -- poor
little creater -- she could not no more eat any
more than if she were a dead corpse
-- she tried when I begged her but
she couldnot -- Master came home at Evening"
(-- It was noticeable of Mumbet that -- to the end
of her life when referring to the days of her
servitude -- she spoke of General A-- as
"my Master"! & tenderly "my old Master"! but
always of Madam A-- her Mistress as 'Madam') --
I got speech of Master as he was dismount
getting off his
-ing & horse, I told him there was a poor
afflicted gal -- a child, as one might call her,
had been waiting all day to speak to
him" He bid me bring her in after supper
[Note inserted in left margin:] + One should have known -- this
remarkable woman
-- the native majesty there was in her deportment -- the
intelli
-gence of her irresistible will & indomitable will to
under
-stand the calmness of the stranger-girl under her protection
& her sure victory over her hurricane of a Mistress --