1 Our greatest concern was about separation.
2 I regarded this separation as a final one.
3 Here I underwent another most painful separation.
4 I was ready for any thing rather than separation.
5 Their object in separating us was to hinder concert.
6 At the very same time, they mutually execrate their masters when viewed separately.
7 In addition to the pain of separation, there was the horrid dread of falling into the hands of Master Andrew.
8 Besides the pain of separation, the dread and apprehension of a failure exceeded what I had experienced at my first attempt.
9 But we knew we should, in all probability, be separated, if we were sold; and since he was in their hands, he concluded to go peaceably home.
10 If I was in a separate room any considerable length of time, I was sure to be suspected of having a book, and was at once called to give an account of myself.
11 I had two sisters and one brother, that lived in the same house with me; but the early separation of us from our mother had well nigh blotted the fact of our relationship from our memories.
12 For what this separation is done, I do not know, unless it be to hinder the development of the child's affection toward its mother, and to blunt and destroy the natural affection of the mother for the child.
13 I, of course, kept the vow I made after the fight with Mr. Covey, and struck back again, regardless of consequences; and while I kept them from combining, I succeeded very well; for I could whip the whole of them, taking them separately.