Thee shall be taken to a house where they'll nurse thee first rate, well as thy own mother could." Tom groaned, and shut his eyes.

In men of his class, vigor and resolution are entirely a physical matter, and ooze out with the flowing of the blood; and the gigantic fellow really looked piteous in his helplessness.
The other party now came up.

The seats were taken out of the wagon.

The buffalo-skins, doubled in fours, were spread all along one side, and four men, with great difficulty, lifted the heavy form of Tom into it.
Before he was gotten in, he fainted entirely.

The old negress, in the abundance of her compassion, sat down on the bottom, and took his head in her lap.