"
So saying, she ran off to the kitchen where she was now a great
favorite, and sitting down at Judy's feet, began to ask her of
Florida and Sunnybank, her former home.
"Tell me more of the magnolias," she said, "It almost seems to me
as if I had seen those beautiful white blossoms and that old house
with its wide hall."
"Whar was you raised?" asked Judy, and Edith replied,
"I told you once, in New York, but I have such queer fancies, as
if I had lived before I came into this world."
"Jest the way Miss Nina used to go on, muttered the old woman,
looking steadily into the fire.
"Nina!" and Edith started quickly. "DID you know Nina, Aunt Judy?
Do you know her now? Where is she? Who is she, and that black-eyed
baby in the frame? Tell me all about them."
"All about what?" I asked Phillis, suddenly appearing and casting
a warning glance at her mother, who replied, "'Bout marster's last
wife, the one you say she done favors." Then, in an aside to
Edith, she added, "I kin pull de wool over her eyes. Bimeby mabby
I'll done tell you how that ar is de likeness of Miss Nina's half
sister what is dead, and 'bout Miss Nina, too, the sweetest, most
misfortinest human de Lord ever bornd.
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