The Story Of Land And Sea: A Novel - Plot & Excerpts
After her father leaves them, Helen stares at the child and wishes she had been given the ribbons instead. Helen had asked her father for a silver brush with boar bristles and a hand mirror. She has no sense of what to do with a negro girl other than to make her fetch things. She advances slowly, and when the girl doesn’t flinch, Helen reaches out and unties the satin loops. “Those mine,” Moll says. Helen winds them between her fingers. “I’ll tell my daddy.” Moll throws out an arm, grabbing at Helen, who twists around to protect her plunder. Moll scrambles onto the other girl’s back, and within moments of the bedroom door closing, the two are scuffling on the ground, pulling at each other’s ears. Their struggle is silent, governed by the prideful solidarity of childhood. Moll, taller by an inch, prevails, and the girls lie on the floor breathing heavily while the slave twines the satin ribbons around the short puffs of her hair. “You try again, I’ll kill you,” she says.
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