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What servants?" he demanded sharply. The only male was James, an old negro groom. "The very man," said Blood. "Bid him get out horses. Then away with you to Speightstown, or even farther north, where you will be safe. Here you are in danger in dreadful danger." "But I thought the fighting was over..." she was beginning, pale and startled. "So it is. But the deviltry's only beginning.
Standing above her he smiled upon her. "There, there! You've no cause for alarm. It's all over now. You'll be away soon away to Speightstown, where you'll be quite safe." The horses came at last four of them, for in addition to James who was to act as her guide, Miss Bishop had her woman, who was not to be left behind. Mr.
There was a slight severity in her tone, as if to reprove the mixture of mockery and flippancy in which he seemed to be speaking. She proceeded to explain herself. "My uncle may appear to you a hard man. No doubt he is. They are all hard men, these planters. It is the life, I suppose. But there are others here who are worse. There is Mr. Crabston, for instance, up at Speightstown.
Rather did the contemplation of their misery increase the bitterness that was gathering in his soul. Of the forty-two who had been landed with him from the Jamaica Merchant, Colonel Bishop had purchased no less than twenty-five. The remainder had gone to lesser planters, some of them to Speightstown, and others still farther north.
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