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Updated: June 29, 2025
But there was the fate of "Uncle Tom," and the picture of "Cassie," captive of "Legree." It was not what slavery always was, but what it might be the terrible possibilities, that aroused the conscience of Christendom, and made the perpetuation of African slavery an impossibility to Americans. The master might choose to use his power over the slave for the indulgence of his own basest propensities.
It must not be supposed that all this went on unremarked, or that in the gossip of the yacht Frank and Cassie Derwent did not come in for a considerable share of attention. It passed from the officers' mess to the saloon, and Florence bit her lip with anger and jealousy when the joke went round of the chief engineer's "infatuation."
And look at him now! Twenty-five pounds he weighs the biggest turkey, I'm tellin' you, ever sailed out of ol' Saint Peer. A whale, twenty-five pounds as he lies there. And four kinds of wine four kinds. Cassie, champagne, claret, which you don't have to drink 'less you want to, and that red-colored wine I don't know the name of, but good stuff I sampled it.
"Why, have you got into a scrape, Ruth? Is that why you look so pale and excited and distressed?" said Cassandra. She spoke in a whisper. Ruth's eyes looked full into hers. "God help me," she said under her breath. "Cassie, if you knew, if you could guess, you'd pity me." Ruth turned away and followed the teacher into the school. A moment later she was standing before the head-mistress.
His memory of her speedily faded. Cassie was succeeded by Matilda Turnbull, who drank, and was dismissed by Mr. Quinn at the end of a fortnight; and then came Bridget Fallon.... Bridget had the longest hold on his memory, but she, too, disappeared and was seen no more; for Mr. Quinn came on her suddenly one day and found her teaching "Master Henry" to say prayers to the Virgin Mary!
I quite like the child myself," said Miss Ravenscroft; "and your opinion of her, Cassie, confirms my own. She told me, too, that you have been extremely kind to her. I quite expect that is the case. But, my dear, the time has come when Ruth will either have to tell us what she knows or to resign her place in the school." Cassandra's face looked troubled.
The money your father gave Cassie has gone long since, but Harriet asks no alms of you, only that you will help her to go somewhere far from those who know that she is not as white as she looks, and to give her a chance to earn her living. She is well fitted to be a governess or companion, and no doubt you could easily place her. But she is lonely and frightened and miserable.
"Without," she said, triumphantly, and knowing she'd say no word more to me for the present, I walked away with Cassie Weldon. And Cassie was good fun. She took me to the piano, and with the soft pedal down, she showed me a new little tone picture she had made up, which was both picturesque and funny. "You'd better go into vaudeville!"
That's Captain Bart Brittler, sticking his head out of the companionway; and Dolph's somewhere below." "But what are they doing on the Cassie J.? Their vessel was named the Silicon." "They're one and the same craft! I'm certain of it. I recognize her rig now, even if it was night when I saw her the first time.
Will you saddle the brown mare for me?" "She am waiting, Massa David. I tole Cassie to get her ready, and some bread and meat, and dis, Massa Davie, if you'll 'blige ole Plato." Then he laid down a rude bag of buckskin, holding the savings of his lifetime. "How much is there, Plato?" "Four hundred dollars, sar. Sorry it am so little." "It was for your freedom, Plato."
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