. A gentleman of the South : a memory of the black belt, from the manuscript memoirs of the late Colonel Stanton Elmore . dcome. And so, the next morning, she andBeverley, sitting together, were startled byLewiss voice from the corridor announcing Marse Robert Underwood to see MissEleanor. Lewis himself looked into theroom with a scared face, and Beverley, glancing A GENTLEMAN OF THE SOUTH 109 compassionately at Eleanor, retreated by theother door as Underwood entered. Lewis offered to take Roberts hat andcloak, but Underwood dismissed him with animpatient gesture that sent him out of theroom
. A gentleman of the South : a memory of the black belt, from the manuscript memoirs of the late Colonel Stanton Elmore . dcome. And so, the next morning, she andBeverley, sitting together, were startled byLewiss voice from the corridor announcing Marse Robert Underwood to see MissEleanor. Lewis himself looked into theroom with a scared face, and Beverley, glancing A GENTLEMAN OF THE SOUTH 109 compassionately at Eleanor, retreated by theother door as Underwood entered. Lewis offered to take Roberts hat andcloak, but Underwood dismissed him with animpatient gesture that sent him out of theroom shaking his head in a way old negroservants use to express a sense of had known Robert from his had greeted him with a humble Goodmornin, Marse Robert, and had been re-warded with the cold announcement that wished to see his sister. TheSelden negroes were not accustomed to suchtreatment from gentlefolk; yet Lewis knewthat Robert Underwood was gently bred. Sothe old man, when he went back to his post,prayed in his heart that Selden might notreturn until Underwood should be CHAPTER VI
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