[Aunt Phillis’s Cabin by Mary H. Eastman]@TWC D-Link bookAunt Phillis’s Cabin CHAPTER V 5/10
I felt very sorry for her." "She deserves it," said Mr.Kent. "I think she does," said Mrs.Moore, smiling, "though for another reason." Mr.Kent blushed as only men with light hair, and light skin, and light eyes, can blush. "I mean," said Mr.Kent, furiously, "she deserves her refusal for her ingratitude.
After God provided her friends who made her a free woman, she is so senseless as to want to go back to be lashed and trodden under foot again, as the slaves of the South are.
I say, she deserves it for being such a fool." "And I say," said Mrs.Moore, "she deserves it for deserting her kind mistress at a time when she most needed her services.
God did not raise her up friends because she had done wrong." "You are right, Emmy, in your views of Susan's conduct; but you should be careful how you trace motives to such a source.
She certainly did wrong, and she has suffered; that is all we can say.
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