1 Mrs. Shelby spoke the last words with a low voice, and strong emphasis.
2 I toed off these yer stockings last night, and put de ball in 'em to mend with.'
3 "Old Uncle Peter sung both de legs out of dat oldest cheer, last week," suggested Mose.
4 "Well, he's a man that I transacted some business with, last time I was at Natchez," said Mr. Shelby.
5 When, at last, Haley appeared, booted and spurred, he was saluted with the bad tidings on every hand.
6 They have pushed him to the very last standing place, and he told me, today, that he was going to run away.
7 Why, last fall, I let him go to Cincinnati alone, to do business for me, and bring home five hundred dollars.
8 Away he went, and Tom looked, till the clatter of his horse's heels died away, the last sound or sight of his home.
9 Haley whipped up the horse, and, with a steady, mournful look, fixed to the last on the old place, Tom was whirled away.
10 It took no inconsiderable perseverance to arouse the inmates; but at last the respectable proprietor appeared, and undid the door.
11 A few last words and tears, a few simple adieus and blessings, and clasping her wondering and affrighted child in her arms, she glided noiselessly away.
12 At last, a sudden recollection seemed to flash upon him, for he stared at the stranger with such an air of blank amazement and alarm, that he walked up to him.
13 The baby employed the intervals in pulling Tom's nose, scratching his face, and burying her fat hands in his woolly hair, which last operation seemed to afford her special content.
14 Add to this all the terrors with which ignorance invests the unknown, and add to this, again, that selling to the south is set before the negro from childhood as the last severity of punishment.
15 At last, about twelve o'clock, Sam appeared triumphant, mounted on Jerry, with Haley's horse by his side, reeking with sweat, but with flashing eyes and dilated nostrils, showing that the spirit of freedom had not yet entirely subsided.
16 The little man stood tiptoe, and putting his head first to one side and then the other, and snuffing considerately in the directions of the various bottles, ordered at last a mint julep, in a thin and quivering voice, and with an air of great circumspection.
17 During this aside between Mose and Pete, two empty casks had been rolled into the cabin, and being secured from rolling, by stones on each side, boards were laid across them, which arrangement, together with the turning down of certain tubs and pails, and the disposing of the rickety chairs, at last completed the preparation.
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