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CHAPTER 5
Showing the Feelings of Living Property on
Changing Owners
MR. AND MRS. SHELBY had retired to their apartment for the night. He
was lounging in a large easy-chair, looking over some letters that had come in the
afternoon mail, and she was standing before her mirror, brushing out the compli-
cated braids and curls in which Eliza had arranged her hair; for, noticing her pale
cheeks and haggard eyes, she had excused her attendance that night, and ordered
her to bed. The employment, naturally enough, suggested her conversation with
the girl in the morning; and, turning to her husband, she said, carelessly,
“By the bye, Arthur, who was that low-bred fellow that you lugged in to our
dinner-table to-day?”
“Haley is his name,” said Shelby, turning himself rather uneasily in his chair,
and continuing with his eyes fixed on a letter.
“Haley! Who is he, and what may be his business here, pray?”
“Well, he’s a man that I transacted some business with, last time I was at
Natchez,” said Mr. Shelby.
“And he presumed on it to make himself quite at home, and call and dine
here, ay?”
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