Well , you is ; everybody is . White folks is sinners too -- Miss Feely says so . But I ` spects niggers is the biggest ones . But ye a n't any of ye up to me . I 's so awful wicked , there ca n't nobody do nothin ' with me . I ` spects I 's the wickedest crittur in the world . ' Then she would turn a somersault , and come up bright and smiling , evidently quite pleased with herself . CHAPTER XV EVA AND TOPSY Two or three years passed . Uncle Tom was still with Mr. St. Clare , far away from his home . He was not really unhappy . But always in his heart was the aching longing to see his dear ones again . Now he began to have a new sorrow . He loved his little mistress Eva very tenderly , and she was ill . He saw that she was growing white and thin . She no longer ran and played in the garden for hours together as she used to do . She was always tired now . Miss Ophelia noticed it too , and tried to make Mr. St. Clare see it . But he would not . He loved his little Eva so much , that he did not want to believe that anything could be the matter with her . Mrs. St. Clare never thought that any one , except herself , could be ill .
So Eva grew daily thinner and weaker , and Uncle Tom and Aunt XXXXX more and more sad and anxious .
Clare Eva Feely Ophelia TOPSY XV crittur hours spects years