[The Attache by Thomas Chandler Haliburton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Attache CHAPTER V 7/17
'Out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh.' Have you been there ?" "Turkey" was thrown off his guard, he opened his wallet, which was well stocked, and retailed his stories, many of them so very rich, that I doubted the capacity of the Attache to out-Herod him.
Mr.Slick received these tales with evident horror, and complimented the narrator with a well simulated groan; and when he had done, said, "Ah, I see how it is, they have purposely kept dark about the most atrocious features of slavery.
Have you never seen the Gougin' School ?" "No, never." "What, not seen the Gougin' School ?" "No, Sir; I never heard of it." "Why, you don't mean to say so ?" "I do, indeed, I assure you." "Well, if that don't pass! And you never even heerd tell of it, eh ?" "Never, Sir.
I have never either seen it or heard of it." "I thought as much," said Mr.Slick.
"I doubt if any Britisher ever did or ever will see it.
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