9/10 "I have a vivid--impression--sir--of an--interview I had with you--at the St.Charles--where you said"-- He was silent for a moment, and then in a quite different voice called faintly-- "George!" Paul and Yerba glanced quickly at each other. The best, sir--you understand.... A good nigger, sir--a good boy; and he never leaves me, sir. Only, by gad! sir, he will starve himself and his family to be with me. I brought him with me to California away back in the fall of 'forty-nine. |