Why, you silly child, who do you think would want to buy your Harry?
Do you think all the world are set on him as you are, you goosie?
Come, cheer up, and hook my dress.

There now, put my back hair up in that pretty braid you learnt the other day, and don't go listening at doors any more." "Well, but, missis, _you_ never would give your consent--to--to--" "Nonsense, child! to be sure, I shouldn't.

What do you talk so for?
I would as soon have one of my own children sold.

But really, Eliza, you are getting altogether too proud of that little fellow.

A man can't put his nose into the door, but you think he must be coming to buy him." Reassured by her mistress' confident tone, Eliza proceeded nimbly and adroitly with her toilet, laughing at her own fears, as she proceeded.
Mrs.Shelby was a woman of high class, both intellectually and morally.
To that natural magnanimity and generosity of mind which one often marks as characteristic of the women of Kentucky, she added high moral and religious sensibility and principle, carried out with great energy and ability into practical results.