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But my better nature coming at last to my aid, I bethought me of what was due to my master, whose bread I ate; and that I ought to act as becomes not only honest dogs, but all who have masters to serve. Scip. There now, Berganza, you have spoken what I call true philosophy; but go on. Do not make too long a yarn not to say tail of your history. Berg.
O how many things I could tell you of that I learned in the school of that she-butcher, my master's lady; but I must pass them over, lest you should think me tedious and censorious. Scip. I have heard that it was a saying of a great poet among the ancients, that it was a difficult thing to write satires. I consent that you put some point into your remarks, but not to the drawing of blood.
'I shan't lef you gwo, Cunnel, till you 'gree not to do dat. The Colonel was a stout, athletic man, in the very prime of life, and his rage gave him more than his ordinary strength, but Scip held him as I might have held a child. 'Here, Jim, shouted the Colonel to his body-servant, who just then emerged from among the trees, 'rouse the plantation shoot this d nigger.
Now, however, that I see myself so unexpectedly enriched with this divine gift of speech, I intend to enjoy it and avail myself of it as much as I can, taking pains to say everything I can recollect, though it be confusedly and helter-skelter, not knowing when this blessing, which I regard as a loan, shall be reclaimed from me. Scip.
The Doctor and Scip had gone outside and now brought the four horses nearer the door. This they did that they might have as little to do with the robbery as possible, and they had so managed it that Jim and Dan had done the actual theft.
"But you told of it, Scip." "I never told nobody but Jupiter, the durn fool!" persisted Scip. "Who is Jupiter?" "Doctor Remane's Jupiter, him that holds his hoss, that he brung up from the fever. He said he wouldn't tell. I never done believe it, never!" "It seems to me, Scip," said Zerviah, in a low, kind voice, "that I wouldn't have told if I'd been you. But never mind."
She rose and followed Scip to the dining-room, where she found the older members of the family already assembled, and about to sit down to the table. "Ah, my dear, good-morning," said Mrs. Carrington; "I was sure you would be up and dressed: but the others were so late getting to bed that I mean they shall be allowed to sleep as long as they will. Ah! and here comes Herbert, too.
As they rode along they would meet one of the herders sitting at ease on his horse, or galloping madly after some refractory steer that was making a break for freedom. They had, in their ride, passed four of these men, and to every one Scip gave a signal, merely the wave of his hand in a peculiar manner, to which the men had responded likewise.
No more of this: proceed to your philosophical remarks. Berg. They are already delivered. Scip. How so? Berg. In those remarks on Latin and the vulgar tongue, which I began and you finished. Scip. Do you call railing philosophising?
Scip was an odd figure, with his short legs, and his woolly hair combed out until his head looked as big as a bushel. The dwellings of the negroes were quite a distance from the "Great House," as that of the master was called, and were built in two or more long rows with a street between. This was the plan upon every plantation.
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