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"Can't see what good you do Missy Alice and Missy Edith 'cause you go
away. How it possible do good, and not with them? Suppose bad
accident, and you away, how you do good? Suppose bad accident, and you
at cottage, then you do good. I think, Massa Edward, you very
foolish."
Edward laughed at this blunt observation of Pablo's, and replied, "It
is very true, Pablo, that I can not watch over my sisters, and protect
them in person, when I am away; but there are reasons why I should go,
nevertheless, and I may be more useful to them by going than by
remaining with them. If I did not think so, I would not leave them.
They know nobody, and have no friends in the world. Suppose anything
was to happen to me--suppose both Humphrey and I were to die--for you
know that we never know how soon that event may take place--who would
there be to protect my poor sisters, and what would become of them? Is
it not, therefore, wise that I should procure friends for them, in
case of accident, who would look after them and protect them? and it
is my hope, that by leaving them now, I shall make powerful and kind
friends for them. Do you understand me?"
"Yes, I see now; you think more than me, Massa Edward. I say just now,
you foolish; I say now, Pablo great fool.
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