"After all, Cassy," he said, "why can't you be friends with me, as you used to ?" "Used to!" said she, bitterly.

She stopped short,--a word of choking feelings, rising in her heart, kept her silent.
Cassy had always kept over Legree the kind of influence that a strong, impassioned woman can ever keep over the most brutal man; but, of late, she had grown more and more irritable and restless, under the hideous yoke of her servitude, and her irritability, at times, broke out into raving insanity; and this liability made her a sort of object of dread to Legree, who had that superstitious horror of insane persons which is common to coarse and uninstructed minds.

When Legree brought Emmeline to the house, all the smouldering embers of womanly feeling flashed up in the worn heart of Cassy, and she took part with the girl; and a fierce quarrel ensued between her and Legree.

Legree, in a fury, swore she should be put to field service, if she would not be peaceable.

Cassy, with proud scorn, declared she _would_ go to the field.