He had witnessed too many of Miss Mary's outbreaks to be startled.

Mrs.Bellmont interrogated Nig.
"I didn't do it! I didn't do it!" answered Nig, passionately, and then related the occurrence truthfully.
The discrepancy greatly enraged Mrs.Bellmont.With loud accusations and angry gestures she approached the child.

Turning to her husband, she asked, "Will you sit still, there, and hear that black nigger call Mary a liar ?" "How do we know but she has told the truth?
I shall not punish her," he replied, and left the house, as he usually did when a tempest threatened to envelop him.

No sooner was he out of sight than Mrs.B.and Mary commenced beating her inhumanly; then propping her mouth open with a piece of wood, shut her up in a dark room, without any supper.

For employment, while the tempest raged within, Mr.Bellmont went for the cows, a task belonging to Frado, and thus unintentionally prolonged her pain.