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Legree, like many other planters, had but one form of ambition, to have in the heaviest crop of the season, and he had several bets on this very present season pending in the next town. Cassy, therefore, with woman's tact, touched the only string that could be made to vibrate. "Well, I'll let him off at what he's got," said Legree; "but he shall beg my pardon, and promise better fashions."
Legree, having refitted Tom's handcuffs, proceeded deliberately to investigate the contents of his pockets. He drew out a silk handkerchief, and put it into his own pocket. Several little trifles, which Tom had treasured, chiefly because they had amused Eva, he looked upon with a contemptuous grunt, and tossed them over his shoulder into the river.
The blind ferocity of Garrison, who sees in every slaveholder a fiend, nowhere appears in its pages. On the other hand, Mrs. Stowe has painted one slaveholder as gentle and generous. Simon Legree, her villain, is a Yankee who has moved South and taken advantage of the power of a master to work evil. Such men have come South. Such things might be done.
This is simply saying that the negro mind has been more crushed and debased than the white. It is no more true of this race than of every oppressed race, the world over. The slave is always a tyrant, if he can get a chance to be one. Legree, like some potentates we read of in history, governed his plantation by a sort of resolution of forces.
It's the biggest mail order business in the world, and its back-bone is System. I've been just fifteen years perfecting that System. It's my job. Hands off." "A fifteen year old system ought to be scrapped," Fanny would retort, boldly. "Anyway, the Simon Legree thing has gone out." No one in the plant had ever dared to talk to him like that.
How far had you got when you lent it me?" "Got just to the most interesting part," said Fry dolefully, "where he comes under a chap called Legree; and then you took it away." "Well, you'll have it again as soon as I have done with it. I say, what do you think of this book? is it true do you think?" "Oh! it is true I'd take my oath of that." "Why how do you know?" "Because it reads like true."
At last the boat stopped at a small town, and Legree, with his party, disembarked. Dark Places "The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations Of cruelty."* * Ps. 74:20. Trailing wearily behind a rude wagon, and over a ruder road, Tom and his associates faced onward.
Legree could not help overhearing this whispering; and it was all the more exciting to him, from the pains that were taken to conceal it from him. He drank more brandy than usual; held up his head briskly, and swore louder than ever in the daytime; but he had bad dreams, and the visions of his head on his bed were anything but agreeable.
"I reckon she will, to her grave," said Legree. "But now, Sambo, you look sharp. If the nigger's got anything of this sort going, trip him up." "Mas'r, let me lone for dat," said Sambo, "I'll tree de coon. Ho, ho, ho!" This was spoken as Legree was getting on his horse, to go to the neighboring town.
They washed his wounds, they provided a rude bed, of some refuse cotton, for him to lie down on; and one of them, stealing up to the house, begged a drink of brandy of Legree, pretending that he was tired, and wanted it for himself. He brought it back, and poured it down Tom's throat. "O, Tom!" said Quimbo, "we's been awful wicked to ye!" "I forgive ye, with all my heart!" said Tom, faintly.
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