9/10 You have a kind master, that won't refuse to sell you. I'll buy you and the boy;--God helping me, I will!" "O, dreadful! if you should be taken ?" "I won't be taken, Eliza; I'll _die_ first! I'll be free, or I'll die!" "You won't kill yourself!" "No need of that. They will kill me, fast enough; they never will get me down the river alive!" "O, George, for my sake, do be careful! Don't do anything wicked; don't lay hands on yourself, or anybody else! You are tempted too much--too much; but don't--go you must--but go carefully, prudently; pray God to help you." "Well, then, Eliza, hear my plan. Mas'r took it into his head to send me right by here, with a note to Mr.Symmes, that lives a mile past. I believe he expected I should come here to tell you what I have. |