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Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman

CHAPTER XXVIII
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I was glad of an opportunity to show that I harbored no unpleasant feelings toward them, and immediately accompanied him home.

The moment that we were all seated at the table, an unpleasant suspicion flashed through, my mind.
The table, the company--all seemed familiar to me, and connected with some unpleasant occurrence which I could not then recall.

But when the lady of the house poured out a cup of tea, and another was about to pass it, I heard her whisper, "I intended that for Mr.Steward," my dream for the first time, flashed through my mind, with all the vivid distinctness of a real incident.

I endeavored to drive it from my thoughts, and did so.
Pshaw! I said to myself; I will not be suspicious nor whimsical, and I swallowed the tea; then took my leave for the steamboat, on our way to New York city.
When we had passed a few miles out of Albany, the boat hove to, and there came on board four men--one of the number a colored man.

The white men repaired to their state-rooms, leaving the colored man on deck, after the boat had returned to the channel.


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