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She did not treat him cordially, though she was not uncivil, and Williams thought her reticence was due to modesty, a mistake frequently made by self-sufficient men. The girl felt that she was bound by her letter, and that she could not in justice mistreat him. It was by her invitation he had come.
He paused, watched my expression, and then continued quizzically: "I reckon you wouldn't be in no great hurry to do that." "No! Then, if I stirred the mash and sampled their liquor, nobody would be likely to mistreat me?" "Shucks! Why, man, whut could they gain by hurtin' you? At the wust, s'posin' they was convicted by your own evidence, they'd only git a month or two in the pen.
His mild blue eyes gazed carelessly at the coils of smoke that blew from his lips. "Oh," she wailed to herself, in the impotence of anger, "they all love him, they all hate me! Why does he not mistreat me, insult me, taunt me anything that will cost him their respect, their devotion! How bitterly they feel toward me for that remark!
'Why, where do you suppose? said I. 'In its cradle, of course. I tucked it up well before I came away, and she won't dare to mistreat it for one while, I said. 'Go and get it! says my sister Rejoice. 'How dared you come home without it? Go and get it this minute, do you hear? I stared as if I had seen a vision. 'Rejoice, what are you thinking of? I asked. 'Bring that child here?
"From what I've heard of her, she wouldn't mistreat anyone. Very probably what she does is merely to feel that she is not acquainted with you. You have an unfortunate way, Eileen, of defeating your own ends.
Then came forth a woeful figure, blackfaced and attired in a dilapidated uniform. As he turned sideways it was noted that this cadet, who was really a rollicking second class man, wore on his back a card labeled in large letters: "Plebe. Please don't mistreat." At first sight of the pitiable object a roar of laughter went up from the spectators.
The poor, distracted wife and mother did all she could, by taking in washing and ironing, to prevent the starvation of her little ones. The husband through his bleared eyes imagined he could see that other men were too friendly to his wife. He charged her with unfaithfulness to the marriage vows. She denied the charge. Only incensed by this he would beat and mistreat her out of all reason.
"No, sooner would I trust to you," she murmured. "You could not mistreat me so! I beseech it of you, take me to the Palace where the King is." On what she based her belief that he was incapable of thwarting her is not quite clear, for he had never taken the trouble to hide the fact that he considered her a nuisance, and her civil marriage with the King a piece of youthful folly on Canute's part.
Every opportunity is here offered for this vile practice. They are far removed from the light and even from the influences of their officers, and in the darkness and silence old and hardened criminals debase and mistreat themselves and sometimes the younger ones that are associated with them in their work.
He owned 'bout thirty-five hund'ed acres an' at leas' a hund'ed an' fifty slaves. "Ever' mornin' 'bout fo' 'clock us could hear dat horn blow for us to git up an' go to de fiel'. Us always quit work 'fore de sun went down an' never worked at night. De overseer was a white man. His name was Josh Neighbors, but de driver was a cullud man, 'Old Man Henry. He wasn't 'lowed to mistreat noboby.
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