Queen by Alex Haley

Author:Alex Haley [Alex Haley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0380702754
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

surely, at this moment, she must know that he loved her.

"While I was proposing to Lizzie."

He hoped for some indication of her feelings, but she gave none. Queen

cried again, and Jass tickled her under the chin, to quiet her.

"She hungry," Easter said.

Jass brought Queen to Easter, put the child in her mother's arms, and sat

on the bed beside them.

"Her name is Queen," he told Easter.

Easter made no comment, but opened her nightgown and put her breast to

Queen's mouth. She watched the girl sucking contentedly for a moment, and

then said to Jass: "You should have a wife. You need a son."

She had never harbored foolish dreams of any elevation of her status. She

knew that she would never be more to Jass than what she was, his slave

mistress, while another, white woman ruled in the big house, and she had

been slightly surprised at Jass's constancy to her. Still, she loved him,

and wanted as much of him as she could have, and tonight had been special

to her. She had not wanted to hear of his proposal to Lizzie tonight, and

now she wanted to hurt him in some way. Or if not him, then Lizzie, by

default. An extraordinary burst of anger and pride and possession swelled

through her. She had something that Lizzie could never have. She glared at

Jass.

"But I have the best of you," she said, fiercely.

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