Topsy Quotes

″‘Topsy, you naughty girl, don’t you tell me a lie,—you stole that ribbon!’ ‘Missis, I declar for ‘t, I didn’t;—never seed it till dis yer blessed minnit.‘”

“Poor Topsy, why need you steal? You’re going to be taken good care of now. I’m sure I’d rather give you anything of mine, than have you steal it.”

“She can’t teach her mischief; she might teach it to some children, but evil rolls off Eva’s mind like dew off a cabbage-leaf,—not a drop sinks in.”

“But people can love you, if you are black, Topsy. Miss Ophelia would love you, if you were good.”

“I love you, because you haven’t had any father, or mother, or friends;—because you’ve been a poor, abused child! I love you, and I want you to be good.”

“Mamma, I think Topsy is different from what she used to be; she’s trying to be a good girl.”

“Yes, poor Topsy! to be sure, I will. There—every time you look at that, think that I love you, and wanted you to be a good girl!”

″‘Topsy, you poor child,’ she said, as she led her into her room, ‘don’t give up! I can love you, though I am not like that dear little child. I hope I’ve learnt something of the love of Christ from her. I hope I’ve learnt something of the love of Christ from her.‘”

“O, nonsense! I want her mine, that I may have a right to take her to the free States, and give her her liberty, that all I am trying to do be not undone.”