He made his home
with an old friend, a clergyman. It was known that he was a stranger,
and at once he was made to feel at home by many of the citizens. The
morning after he arrived, Jack, a servant of a neighboring family, came
into the breakfast-room, with a waiter filled with dishes, which he
deposited on the side-board. 'Master and Missis send their compliments,
and want to know how the family is, and how Mr. Grant is this morning.'
Now they had never seen Mr. Grant; but they knew that he had arrived the
night before. 'Well, Jack,' says Mrs. ----, 'I see you have got some
good things for us.' 'O, not much, Missis; but they thought you and Mr.
Grant would excuse 'em for sending it.' So there were deposited on the
breakfast-table, 'big hominy' in one or two shapes, rare fish,
puff-muffins, and several dishes which called for Jack's
interpretations. 'And Master says, shall he send the carriage round for
you this forenoon? and he will call himself.' The evening talk was
interrupted by a black woman, all smiles, bearing a waiter of ice-cream
and other refreshments, from another house; and so the visit was a
succession of surprises from families who, at the South, count each
other's guests their own.
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