Never Too Late
“A lull came in the wind and a great calm descended. From far away in the slave village the faint music of a fiddle and clapping hands could be heard as darkness descended. In the gardens of the big house, however, the refined music of the small orchestra began to lure the ladies in their colorful dresses with strains of minuet and a selection of Mozart country dances.
Once dinner was past and all the dishes washed and dried and put away, Mammy told the girls who were helping her that they c...ould go down to the village if they wanted, though by then it was after ten and the night starting to get a little chilly.
Seffie was already sleepy but she didn’t want to miss out on anything. She followed the three or four other kitchen girls, all older than she was, through the night. Gradually the sounds of refined white music and culture faded behind them and the familiar sounds of slave voices and laughter and fiddling and singing in rich Negro harmony grew louder and louder, until they were in the midst of their own people again.MoreLess
Once dinner was past and all the dishes washed and dried and put away, Mammy told the girls who were helping her that they c...ould go down to the village if they wanted, though by then it was after ten and the night starting to get a little chilly.
Seffie was already sleepy but she didn’t want to miss out on anything. She followed the three or four other kitchen girls, all older than she was, through the night. Gradually the sounds of refined white music and culture faded behind them and the familiar sounds of slave voices and laughter and fiddling and singing in rich Negro harmony grew louder and louder, until they were in the midst of their own people again.MoreLess
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