Please do not betray your ignorance on subjects about which you are evidently in midnight darkness." She was some ways from me, but I heard her continue: "Was there ever anything like this Northern ignorance and prejudice about the Southern people!" I had nothing to do but resume my lonely walk.

My sense of desolateness no tongue can tell.

I whistled for Bruno, but in vain.

She called me "an ignorant thing," said I.Ignorant on the subject of slavery! How easy it is to misjudge! Have I steadied free-soil papers all these years only to be called "an ignorant thing!" I could graduate to-day from this institution, though only in my second year, if the examination were confined to the subject of slavery.

I have thoroughly understood the theory; I have learned by heart the codes of the iniquitous system.