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She spent a doleful evening at home with her dour husband and resented him more than ever. On the second day Kedzie was a slum waif and did not like it. She pouted with a sincerity that was irresistible. Mr. Ferriday did not direct the crowd scenes in these pictures. His assistant, Mr. Garfinkel, was the slave-driver. Mr. Yoder cleverly called him "Simon Legree." Kedzie did not know who Mr.
With him, it was "Slave-driver"; with them, "Abolitionist"; yet he revered and they revered the great-hearted planter of Mount Vernon. When the war came at last to teach its terrible, yet essential lessons, Mr. Houghton's eldest son was among the first to exercise the courage of the convictions which had always been instilled into his mind.
The slave-driver may work as hard as the slave in his efforts to appropriate the earnings of others. The thief may work in the night and endure more hardness to secure the property of another than would be necessary to honestly earn it.
It was the first evidence that we were approaching the perilous borders, the marches where the North and the South mingle their angry hosts, where the extremes of our so-called civilization meet in conflict, and the fierce slave-driver of the Lower Mississippi stares into the stern eyes of the forest-feller from the banks of the Aroostook.
Over the hatchway stood a ferocious looking fellow, the slave-driver of the ship, with a scourge of many-twisted thongs in his hand; whenever he heard the slightest noise from below, he shook it over them, and seemed eager to exercise it. "As soon as the poor creatures saw us looking down at them, their melancholy visages brightened up.
"My opinion is she'll never touch you or your slave-gold with a mile- measure." Dicky did not think this, but it was his way of easing his own mind. Inwardly he was studying the situation, and wondering how he could put Kingsley's business straight. "She thinks I'm still a 'slave-driver, as she calls it women are so innocent. You did your part, as well as could be expected, I'm bound to say.
Then she caught at a straw: he was no slave-driver now. He had "May I not help you go with you to England?" he questioned over her shoulder. "Like Alexander Selkirk 'I shall finish my journey alone," she said, with sudden but imperfectly assumed acerbity. "Will you not help me, then?" he asked. "We could write a book together." "Oh, a book!" she said. "A book of life," he whispered.
The fact was that it was only the most vigorous and muscular men who could perform the tremendous task assigned them by that tyrannical man, who drove his men on and on with all the cruel, callous persistency of a slave-driver. No wonder poor, weak Pasche gave out where many a stalwart man has also failed. He had been a sailor for some years on the St.
He afterwards discovered that a 'book-keeper' was an intermediate between the black slave-driver and the white overseer, and was doomed to a miserable and degrading life. It was now settled that he should go with William to Aberdeen, and study law. He entered at Lincoln's Inn, and looked forward to practising at St. Christopher's.
I suspect that your flatterers have not given you a fair chance. It is difficult to look through the dazzle and estimate the intelligence of a queen." "Really! You come with a new flattery. My father's money " "Miss, or madam, your father is a pauper in comparison with the man who loves nature. He is a slave, living the life of a slave-driver.
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