You can get used to such things, too, my friend; and it is the great object of recent efforts to make our whole northern community used to them, for the glory of the Union.

So the trader only regarded the mortal anguish which he saw working in those dark features, those clenched hands, and suffocating breathings, as necessary incidents of the trade, and merely calculated whether she was going to scream, and get up a commotion on the boat; for, like other supporters of our peculiar institution, he decidedly disliked agitation.
But the woman did not scream.

The shot had passed too straight and direct through the heart, for cry or tear.
Dizzily she sat down.

Her slack hands fell lifeless by her side.

Her eyes looked straight forward, but she saw nothing.