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300 Behind the Scenes. table-cloth. We entered into conversation, when I asked him how long since he had left Chicago. He replied, ' Two weeks since.' He said, ' How strange you should be on the train and I not know it!' " As soon as I could escape from the table, I did so by saying, ' I must secure a cup of tea for a lady friend with me who has a head-ache.' I had scarcely returned to the car, when he entered it with a cup of tea borne by his own aristocratic hands. I was a good deal annoyed by seeing him, and he was so agitated that he spilled half of the cup over my elegantly gloved hands. Be looked very sad, and I fancied 609 Broadway occupied his, thoughts. I apologized for the absent lady who wished the cup, by saying that 1 in my absence she had slipped out for it.' His heart was in his eyes, notwithstanding my veiled face. Pity for me, I fear, has something to do with all this. I never saw his manner so gentle and sad. This was nearly evening, and I did not
Title | Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House |
Creator | Keckley, Elizabeth |
Publisher | G.W. Carleton & Co. |
Place of Publication | New York |
Date | 1868 |
Language | eng |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Title | 00000305 |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Transcript | 300 Behind the Scenes. table-cloth. We entered into conversation, when I asked him how long since he had left Chicago. He replied, ' Two weeks since.' He said, ' How strange you should be on the train and I not know it!' " As soon as I could escape from the table, I did so by saying, ' I must secure a cup of tea for a lady friend with me who has a head-ache.' I had scarcely returned to the car, when he entered it with a cup of tea borne by his own aristocratic hands. I was a good deal annoyed by seeing him, and he was so agitated that he spilled half of the cup over my elegantly gloved hands. Be looked very sad, and I fancied 609 Broadway occupied his, thoughts. I apologized for the absent lady who wished the cup, by saying that 1 in my absence she had slipped out for it.' His heart was in his eyes, notwithstanding my veiled face. Pity for me, I fear, has something to do with all this. I never saw his manner so gentle and sad. This was nearly evening, and I did not |
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