But, as I have before said, I was doomed to disappointment.
Master Thomas seemed to be aware of my hopes and expectations concerning him.

I have thought, before now, that he looked at me in answer to my glances, as much as to say, "I will teach you, young man, that, though I have parted with my sins, I have not parted with my sense.

I shall hold my slaves, and go to heaven too." Possibly, to convince us that we must not presume _too much_ upon his recent conversion, he became rather more rigid and stringent in his exactions.

There always was a scarcity of good nature about the man; but now his whole countenance was _soured_ over with the seemings of piety.
His religion, therefore, neither made him emancipate his slaves, nor caused him to treat them with greater humanity.

If religion had any effect on his character at all, it made him more cruel and hateful in all his ways.