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By this detestable process the "master" had the labor of the "servant" for a mere pittance; and even that pittance did not go to the servant, but was paid into the treasury of the county, and thus relived the white men from their proper share of taxation. There may have been more cruel laws enacted, but the statute-books of the world might be searched in vain for one of meaner injustice.
And Priscilla stretched her hands out impulsively. Farwell took them in his cold, thin ones and clung to her grimly. "I'd like to know she'd welcome me!" he whispered. "Unless she could, I'd rather stay dead!" Another silence fell between the man and girl while he relived the past and she sought to enter the future. The clock struck the half-hour of one and Farwell sprang up.
Confound Van Blarcom's reminiscences and the thoughts they had set stirring! In ambush behind my paper I gloomily relived the past. Our ship, following sealed instructions, had changed her course at Gibraltar, conveying us by way of the Spanish coast to Genoa instead of Naples.
With bodies at ease and minds untroubled, they now relived in pleasant retrospect all the excitement and bustle of the crowds, all the bewildering sights and sounds of the Midway.
I, Darrell Standing, must now complete the amazingness of the details of this existence which I relived while unconscious in the strait-jacket in San Quentin prison. I often wondered if Daniel Foss had been true in his resolve and deposited the carved oar in the Philadelphia Museum. It is a difficult matter for a prisoner in solitary to communicate with the outside world.
The President, seeing General Mac's embarrassment, relived him by shaking hands cordially with each of the young ladies. The metropolis was not very gay during the latter portion of Mr. Polk's Administration.
She did not mean to go to sleep for a long time. She had much to think about. So she looked up the black sheer cañon walls to the deep blue, starry sky above, and relived her day in memory.
The same strange joy at having told him her secret and released the tension was being relived again in knowing that she was to leave the tangle with the Gorgeous Girl in command of it, and go live her commercial nun's existence in the offices of unromantic old graybeards who merely thought of her as a mighty clever woman who would not demand an assistant.
So he remained silent, staring, wrapped in his own musings. His mother looked at him in silence also, but with a half-suppressed smile. At last she asked, "Sa uishe, will you eat?" "Yes," he replied, considerably relived by this turn in the conversation. He rose and moved briskly toward the entrance to the cooking apartment; but Say held him back.
She now saw him from the commencement of that scene and relived what she had then felt. She recalled his long sad and severe look at those words and understood the meaning of the rebuke and despair in that protracted gaze. "I agreed," Natasha now said to herself, "that it would be dreadful if he always continued to suffer.
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