They do not regard the apprenticeship as intermediate time for preparation, but as part of the _compensation_.
Every day is counted, not as worth so much for education and moral instruction, but as worth so much for digging cane-holes, and clearing coffee fields.
Mr.P.'s church escaped destruction during the persecution of the Baptists.

The wives and connections of many of the colored soldiers had taken refuge in it, and had given out word that they would defend it even against their own husbands and brothers, who in turn informed their officers that if ordered to destroy it, they should refuse at all peril..