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Now you know what I am! ``I'll make you toe the mark, every soul of you, or I'll flog you all, fore and aft, from the boy up! ``You've got a driver over you! Yes, a slave-driver, a nigger-driver!
He'd often, after brooding a long while, start a sentence, and break off with 'You know, Jack. And somehow I understood, without being able to explain why. We had never met before I engaged with him for this trip. His men respected him, but he was not a popular boss: he was too gloomy, and never drank a glass nor 'shouted' on the trip: he was reckoned a 'mean boss', and rather a nigger-driver.
My uncle left me ten leagues square of entailed estate; that is how I still have that house and home. I have a hundred negroes nothing but negroes and negresses and negro brats, all bought by my uncle " "Nephew to a nigger-driver," said Carabine, with a grimace. "That needs some consideration. Cydalise, child, are you fond of the blacks?" "Pooh! Carabine, no nonsense," said the old woman.
Gordon's chance of revenge came sooner than he expected. Not long after he got out of doors again he was on his way down to the lake, where he was learning to swim, when a number of boys whom he passed began to hoot at him. In their midst was Ferdy Wickersham, the boy who had crossed the ocean with him. He was setting the others on. The cry that came to Gordon was: "Nigger-driver! Nigger-driver!"
"Dey says he got dat eye knock' out tryin' ter whip a cullud 'oman, when he wuz a boy, an' dat he ain' never had no use fer niggers sence, 'cep'n' fer what he could make outen 'em wid his convic' labor contrac's. His daddy wuz a' overseer befo' 'im, an' it come nachul fer him ter be a nigger-driver.
I might take too much, as the old men do, to sink what they don't want to think on. 'You mean about bully-cock Firm, says I; 'rebel Firm nigger-driver Firm. 'Hush! he said; 'no bad words about it. He has gone by his conscience and his heart. What do we know of what come inside of him?
My point is that, being an ex-gentleman, you may appreciate certain aspects of this case which would be beyond the understanding of a nigger-driver like Stone, or an efficiency expert like Cartwright. One gentleman can recognise another, even in a miner's costume. Isn't that so?" Hal paused for an answer, and the marshal gave him a wary look. "I suppose so," he said.
The Ronleigh captain laughed. "Well done," he said. "I wish some other fellows were a bit more careful to keep their promises. Acton, you beggar, you swore you'd keep up this register for me, and there's nothing entered for last term." "Oh, bother you, Ally!" exclaimed the other; "what a nigger-driver you are! Hullo, there's the bell! Here, kid, stick those two oranges in your pocket; go 'long!"
She had been tenderly reared alongside her young mistress, had received almost as good an education, and, in fact, was treated rather as a sister than a slave. Except from Mademoiselle, she received no commands. The "nigger-driver" had nothing to do with her. I had therefore no dread of any unlawful influence on his part.
Why, if I'd been willing to stay at Avoyelles to be a nigger-driver like him, the plantation of 'de Fontanges' whose name you have taken would have been left to me. If YOU had stayed there, you might have been my property instead of YOUR owning a square man like Randolph. You didn't think of that when you came here, did you?" he said composedly.
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