1 And now Rachel took Eliza's hand kindly, and led the way to the supper-table.
2 The child's whole heart and soul seemed absorbed in works of love and kindness.
3 "So I have," said the man, as he roughly, but kindly, drew her up the steep bank.
4 He sought Miss Ophelia, who, ever since Eva's death, had treated him with marked and respectful kindness.
5 So, when you rejoice in your freedom, think that you owe it to that good old soul, and pay it back in kindness to his wife and children.
6 Tom, who had the soft, impressible nature of his kindly race, ever yearning toward the simple and childlike, watched the little creature with daily increasing interest.
7 If she should chance to meet any who knew her, she reflected that the well-known kindness of the family would be of itself a blind to suspicion, as making it an unlikely supposition that she could be a fugitive.
8 Mr. Shelby was a fair average kind of man, good-natured and kindly, and disposed to easy indulgence of those around him, and there had never been a lack of anything which might contribute to the physical comfort of the negroes on his estate.
9 Tom," said his master, kindly, "I want you to notice that I give this gentleman bonds to forfeit a thousand dollars if you are not on the spot when he wants you; he's going today to look after his other business, and you can have the day to yourself.
10 The story of the day was rehearsed, with all kinds of ornament and varnishing which might be necessary to heighten its effect; for Sam, like some of our fashionable dilettanti, never allowed a story to lose any of its gilding by passing through his hands.
11 It was the first time that ever George had sat down on equal terms at any white man's table; and he sat down, at first, with some constraint and awkwardness; but they all exhaled and went off like fog, in the genial morning rays of this simple, overflowing kindness.
12 Now, a nigger, you see, what's got to be hacked and tumbled round the world, and sold to Tom, and Dick, and the Lord knows who, tan't no kindness to be givin on him notions and expectations, and bringin on him up too well, for the rough and tumble comes all the harder on him arter.
13 It was the first word of kindness the child had ever heard in her life; and the sweet tone and manner struck strangely on the wild, rude heart, and a sparkle of something like a tear shone in the keen, round, glittering eye; but it was followed by the short laugh and habitual grin.