It would please him, if he thought it would aggravate 'Shelby's folks,' as he calls 'em.

I'm going home quite resigned, you understand, as if all was over.

I've got some preparations made,--and there are those that will help me; and, in the course of a week or so, I shall be among the missing, some day.

Pray for me, Eliza; perhaps the good Lord will hear _you_." "O, pray yourself, George, and go trusting in him; then you won't do anything wicked." "Well, now, _good-by_," said George, holding Eliza's hands, and gazing into her eyes, without moving.

They stood silent; then there were last words, and sobs, and bitter weeping,--such parting as those may make whose hope to meet again is as the spider's web,--and the husband and wife were parted..