William, she now resolved, for the first time becoming really
interested in him, should grow up to be a model young man,
a splendid and wonderful piece of mechanism, a fine, practical,
machine-like individual, moral, upright, religious. She was glad
that he was young; she would begin his training on the morrow.
She would teach him to sew, to sweep, to churn, to cook, and when
he was older he should be educated for the ministry.
"Yes," said Miss Minerva; "I shall be very strict with him just
at first, and punish him for the slightest disobedience or
misdemeanor, and he will soon learn that my authority is not to
be questioned."
And the little boy who had never had a restraining hand laid upon
him in his short life? He slept sweetly and innocently in the
next room dreaming of the care-free existence on the plantation
and of his idle, happy, negro companions.
CHAPTER III
THE WILLING WORKER
"Get up, William," said Miss Minerva, "and come with me to the
bath-room; I have fixed your bath.
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