Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXIV. CLEAR SHINING AFTER RAIN. Clayton had occasion to visit New York on business. He never went without carrying some token of remembrance from the friends in his settlement to Milly, now indeed far advanced in years, while yet, in the expressive words of Scripture, "her eye was not dim, nor her natural force abated." He found her in a neat little tenement in one of the outer streets of New York, surrounded by about a dozen children, among whom were blacks, whites, and foreigners. These she had rescued from utter destitution in the streets, and was giving to them all the attention and affection of a mother. "Why, bless you, sir," she said to him, pleasantly, as he opened the door, "it's good to see you once more! How is Miss Anne?" "Very well, Milly. She sent you this little packet; and you will find something from Harry and Lisette, and all the rest of your friends in our settlement. -- Ah! are these all your children, Milly?" "Yes, honey; mine and de Lord's. Dis yer 's my second dozen. De fust is all in good places, and doing well. I keeps my eye on 'em, and goes round to see after 'em a little, now and then." "And how is Tomtit?" "0, Tomtit's doing beautiful, thank 'e, sir. He 's 'come a Christian, and jined the church; and they has him to wait and tend at the anti-slavery office, and he does well." "I see you have.black and white here," said Clayton, glancing around the circle. "Laws, yes," said Milly, looking complacently around; "I don't make no distinctions of color, -- I don't believe in them. White chil'en, when they 'haves themselves, is jest as good as black, and I loves 'em jest as well." "Don't you sometimes think it a little hard you should have to work so in your old age?" "Why, bress you, honey, no! I takes...