"But I am wrong to be excited thus; men who accomplish great things approach them coolly, so must I.I must plot, watch, and wait;" and thus speaking, he put on his hat and left the office.
As Mr.Stevens approached his house, a handsome carriage drove up to the door of his neighbour, and Mr.Garie and his wife, who had been enjoying a drive along the bank of the river, alighted and entered their residence.
The rustle of her rich silk dress grated harshly on his ear, and the soft perfume that wafted toward him as she glided by, was the very reverse of pleasant to him.
Mr.Garie bowed stiffly to him as they stood on the steps of their respective residences, which were only divided by the low iron fence; but, beyond the slight inclination of the head, took no further notice of him.
"The cursed haughty brute," muttered Mr.Stevens, as he jerked the bell with violence; "how I hate him! I hated him before I knew--but now I----;" as he spoke, the door was opened by a little servant that Mrs.Stevens had recently obtained from a charity institution.
"You've kept me standing a pretty time," exclaimed he savagely, as he seized her ear and gave it a spiteful twist; "can't you manage to open the door quicker ?" "I was up in the garret, and didn't hear the bell," she replied, timidly.
"Then I'll improve your hearing," he continued malignantly, as he pulled her by the ear; "take that, now, and see if you'll keep me standing at the door an hour again." Striding forward into the back parlour, he found his wife holding a small rattan elevated over little Lizzy in a threatening attitude.
"Will you never mind me?
I've told you again and again not to go, and still you persist in disobeying me.

I'll cut you to pieces if you don't mind.
Will you ever go again ?" she almost screamed in the ears of the terrified child.
"Oh, no, mother, never; please don't whip me, I'll mind you;" and as she spoke, she shrank as far as possible into the corner of the room.

"What's all this--what's the matter, Jule?
What on earth are you going to whip Liz for ?" "Because she deserves it," was the sharp reply; "she don't mind a word I say.

I've forbid her again and again to go next door to visit those little niggers, and she will do it in spite of me.

She slipped off this afternoon, and has been in their house over an hour; and it was only this morning I detected her kissing their Clarence through the fence." "Faugh," said Mr.Stevens, with a look of disgust; "you kissed a nigger! I'm ashamed of you, you nasty little thing; your mother ought to have taken a scrubbing-brush and cleaned your mouth, never do such a thing again; come here to me." As he spoke, he extended his hand and grasped the delicately rounded arm of his little girl.
"What induces you to go amongst those people; hasn't your mother again and again forbidden you to do so.