band an

r dejectedly looking after the retreating carriage, when a hand was laid

you 's come! Missis is gone to spend the afternoon; so come

tment opening on the verandah, where she generall

shyly regarding his father through his curls, holding close to the skirts of his mot

said George, bitterly. "I wis

down, leaned her head on her husba

so, poor girl!" said he, fondly; "it's too bad: O, how

adful thing has happened, or is going to happe

ild on his knee, he gazed intently on his glorious d

oman I ever saw, and the best one I ever wish to se

ge, how

I'm a poor, miserable, forlorn drudge; I shall only drag you down with me, that's all. What's the use of our tr

feel about losing your place in the factory, and you have

e came and took me away, for no earthly reason, from the place where everybody was kin

d Eliza; "but, after all, h

I can read better than he can; I can write a better hand,-and I've learned it all myself, and no thanks to him,-I've learned it in spite of him; and now what right has he to make a dray-horse of me?-to take me from thi

I'm afraid you'll do something dreadful. I don't wonder at your fee

es. I thought I could do my work well, and keep on quiet, and have some time to read and learn out of work hours; but the more he sees I can do, the more he loads on. He says that

ll we do?" said E

turned on me, and began striking me. I held his hand, and then he screamed and kicked and ran to his father, and told him that I was fighting him. He came in a rage, and said he'd teach me who was my master; and he tied me to a tree, and cut switches for young master, and told him t

s thought that I must obey my master and

e a good education; that is some reason why they should claim you. But I have been kicked and cuffed and sworn at, and at the best only let alone; a

band in this mood before; and her gentle system of ethics

and kind o' looked at me as if he understood how I felt. Well, the other day I was just feeding him with a few old scraps I picked up by the kitchen door, and Mas'r came along, a

, you didn

so mournful, as if he wondered why I didn't save him. I had to take a flogging because I wouldn't do it myself. I

do anything wicked; if you only trust in G

heart's full of bitterness; I can't trus

s that when all things go wrong to us, we mu

e I am, I guess it would come some harder. I wish I could be good; but my heart burns, and can't be reconciled, a

n be com

s up above him, and that I've got proud notions from you; and he says he won't let me come here any more, and that I shall take a wife and settle down on his place. At first

the minister, as much as if you'd be

e chooses to part us. That's why I wish I'd never seen you,-why I wish I'd never been born; it would have been better

aster is

he is handsome, and smart, and bright? I tell you, Eliza, that a sword will pierce through your soul f

urned pale and gasped for breath. She looked nervously out on the verandah, where the boy, tired of the grave conversation, had retired, and whe

!" she thought. "No, I won't tell him; besi

husband, mournfully, "bear up,

eorge! Go

buy you; that's all the hope that's left us. You have a kind master, that

! if you sho

a; I'll die first! I'll

't kill

l me, fast enough; they never w

ay hands on yourself, or anybody else! You are tempted too much-too much;

you what I have. It would please him, if he thought it would aggravate 'Shelby's folks,' as he calls 'em. I'm going home quite resigned, you understand, as if all was over. I've got some p

nd go trusting in him; then

. They stood silent; then there were last words, and sobs, and bitter weeping,-such parting as tho