He's an Englishman; his father was a known friend of the Confederacy, and bought their cotton bonds." She stopped, gazing into Courtland's face with a pretty vague impatience and a slight pouting of her lip.
"Co'nnle!" "Miss Sally." "Yo' say yo' had known me for three years before yo' saw me.

Well, we met once before we ever spoke to each other!" Courtland looked in her laughing eyes with admiring wonder.

"When ?" he asked.
"The first day yo' came! Yo' moved the ladder when I was on the cornice, and I walked all ever yo' head.

And, like a gentleman, yo' never said a word about it.

I reckon I stood on yo' head for five minutes." "Not as long as that," said Courtland laughing, "if I remember rightly." "Yes," said Miss Sally with dancing eyes.