He's our only darkey, sir.
You can't miss him.

I might show you his shop." This Grey declined.
"I suppose, sir," said Peter, curious, "all darkies look so much alike that it is hard to tell them apart." "Oh, not for us--not for us." Then Peter was still more sure that the gentleman with the gold-headed cane was from the South.

As Grey lingered thoughtful, Lamb was maliciously inspired by the size of Grey's donation and the prospect it offered.

He studied the face of the Southern gentleman and ventured to say, "Excuse me, sir, but if you want to get that man back--" "I want him! Good gracious! I did not own him.

My inquiries were, I might say, casual, purely casual." Lamb, thanks to the Penhallows, had had some education at the school for the mill children, but what was meant by "purely casual" he did not know.
If it implied lack of interest, that was not the case, or why the questions and this gift, large for Westways.