[Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe]@TWC D-Link bookUncle Tom's Cabin CHAPTER XIV 13/16
I don't know, either, about religion's being up in the market, just now.
I have not looked in the papers lately, to see how it sells.
How many hundred dollars, now, do you put on for this religion ?" "You like to be jokin, now," said the trader; "but, then, there's _sense_ under all that ar.
I know there's differences in religion.
Some kinds is mis'rable: there's your meetin pious; there's your singin, roarin pious; them ar an't no account, in black or white;--but these rayly is; and I've seen it in niggers as often as any, your rail softly, quiet, stiddy, honest, pious, that the hull world couldn't tempt 'em to do nothing that they thinks is wrong; and ye see in this letter what Tom's old master says about him." "Now," said the young man, stooping gravely over his book of bills, "if you can assure me that I really can buy _this_ kind of pious, and that it will be set down to my account in the book up above, as something belonging to me, I wouldn't care if I did go a little extra for it.
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