Nothing but the whites of the darky's eyes could now be seen.

I did not want to perish there in the fresh bloom of my youth and loveliness; it seemed to me as if it was my duty to reserve myself for fields of future usefulness, so I walked back and laid the book cover precisely on the spot whence I had obtained it, while the thousand boys in the house set up a yell of sarcastic laughter.
We staid in Wilmington a few days, days of almost purely animal enjoyment--the joy of having just as much to eat as we could possibly swallow, and no one to molest or make us afraid in any way.

How we did eat and fill up.

The wrinkles in our skin smoothed out under the stretching, and we began to feel as if we were returning to our old plumpness, though so far the plumpness was wholly abdominal.
One morning we were told that the transports would begin going back with us that afternoon, the first that left taking the sick.

Andrews and I, true to our old prison practices, resolved to be among those on the first boat.