[Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe]@TWC D-Link bookUncle Tom's Cabin CHAPTER XI 19/25
Money is a great help everywhere;--can't have too much, if you get it honestly.
Take it,--_do_ take it, _now_,--do, my boy!" "On condition, sir, that I may repay it at some future time, I will," said George, taking up the money. "And now, George, how long are you going to travel in this way ?--not long or far, I hope.
It's well carried on, but too bold.
And this black fellow,--who is he ?" "A true fellow, who went to Canada more than a year ago.
He heard, after he got there, that his master was so angry at him for going off that he had whipped his poor old mother; and he has come all the way back to comfort her, and get a chance to get her away." "Has he got her ?" "Not yet; he has been hanging about the place, and found no chance yet. Meanwhile, he is going with me as far as Ohio, to put me among friends that helped him, and then he will come back after her. "Dangerous, very dangerous!" said the old man. George drew himself up, and smiled disdainfully. The old gentleman eyed him from head to foot, with a sort of innocent wonder. "George, something has brought you out wonderfully.
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