"Bless de good God 'Imighty you am' gone out!" she panted.

"I run an' I run, an' I come so fas' I got stitches in de side f'um head to heel!" Tom brought her a glass of water, which she drank between gasps.
"I nevah run so befo' enduin' my livin' days," she asserted.

"You knows me, who I am an' whum I cum f'um, nigh's well's I knows who you is, I reckon, Maje' Vanrevel ?" "Yes, yes, I know.

Will you tell me who sent you ?" "Miz Tanberry, suh, dat who sended me, an' in a venomous hurry she done de same!" "Yes.

Why?
Does she want me ?" Mamie emitted a screech.