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Lord Vincent walked up and down the deck, occasionally stopping to exchange a word with Claudia, or the judge. At length the signal-bell rang out, every peal striking like a death-toll on the heart of the old man. And the order was shouted forth: "All hands ashore!" The moment of life and death had come. He started up; he strained his daughter to his breast. He gasped: "God bless you, my dear!
The whole bells of the Abbey now added their peal to the death-toll of the largest which had so long sounded. The monks wept and prayed as they got themselves into the order of their procession for the last time, as seemed but too probable. "It is well our Father Boniface hath retired to the inland," said Father Philip; "he could never have put over this day it would have broken his heart!"
Now go and look after that fish, that it may not burn; we shall soon find the master somewhere. Has he finished his devotions?" "Yes; but he has surely commenced anew. The bells are ringing the death-toll, and at such times he is accustomed to say one extra prayer for the departed soul. Don't disturb him, I beg, or he will grumble the whole day."
Slaves are valuable property, and it is cheaper to feed them well than badly. But over and above the food, the slave-owner has to bear the cost of transit from their bright happy homes in Central Africa, through hundreds of miles of scorching desert, which demands a frightful death-toll.
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