She added that she was about tired of his nonsense.
It may be known that I have heretofore lost no opportunity to foist all faults of understanding upon the heads of my fellow-townsmen.

And I should have liked to keep my record clear in that matter; but it would be uncandid to pretend, even at this late day, that I have ever divined the precise relationship that exists between Miss Caroline and her slave.

I may know a bit more of its intricacies than does Little Arcady at large, but not enough to permit that certain thrill of superior discernment which I have so often been able to enjoy in Slocum County.
Each of the two, considered alone, is fairly comprehensible.

But taken together, there is something between them which must always baffle me--something which I cannot believe to have been at all typical of the relation between owner and slave, else many of the facts noted by our discerning and impartial investigators were either imperfectly observed or unintelligently reported.
Up to a certain point my own studies of this slave-holder aligned perfectly with the information which we of the North had been at such pains to gather.

And I tried to hold Miss Caroline blameless, remembering that she had been long schooled to the inhumanity of it.
I resolved, nevertheless, to take Clem under my own roof--there was a small unused room almost directly under it--the moment Miss Caroline's impatience with him should move her to the extremes foretold by her abusive fashion of speech.