Then I knew I had been wrong." "And it cost you everything." "Just about everything in the world, I reckon, so far as worldly goods go.

I suppose you know what you and your little colonization scheme have done to me ?" "But you--what do you mean ?" "Why, didn't you know that?
Weren't Carlisle and Kammerer your agents; and didn't Lily, our late disappearing slave and also late lecturing fugitive yonder, represent them?
Don't you really know about that ?" "No, I had nothing to do with their operations." "Do you mean to tell me that it was--Oh, I am glad you do not know about it," he said soberly, "although I don't understand that part of it." "Won't you explain ?" she besought him.
"Now, the truth is--and that is the main reason of all this popular feeling against me here--that Lily, or these men, or people like them, took away every solitary negro from my plantation, as well as from two or three others neighboring me! They didn't stop to _buy_ my property--they just _took_ it! You see, Madam,"-- he smiled rather grimly,--"these northern abolitionists remain in the belief that they have all the virtue and all the fair dealing in the world.

It has been a little hard on my cotton crop.

I will not have any crop this fall.

I had no labor.