[A Romance of the Republic by Lydia Maria Francis Child]@TWC D-Link bookA Romance of the Republic CHAPTER XXII 22/26
His house is the depot of various subterranean railroads; and I pity the slaveholder who tries to get on any of his tracks.
He finds himself 'like a toad under a harrow, where ilka tooth gies him a tug,' as the Scotch say." While waiting for the carriage, Chloe and her children were brought in.
Flora took the little ones under her care, and soon had their aprons filled with cakes and sugarplums.
Chloe, unable to restrain her feelings, dropped down on her knees in the midst of the questions they were asking her, and poured forth an eloquent prayer that the Lord would bless these good friends of her down-trodden people. When the carriage arrived, she rose, and, taking Mrs.Delano's hand, said solemnly: "De Lord bress yer, Missis! De Lord bress yer! I seed yer once fore ebber I knowed yer.
I seed yer in a vision, when I war prayin' to de Lord to open de free door fur me an' my chillen.
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