She ran off, leaving the child to me.

My wife and I took the child home, and have been at pains and expense with it.

I question the child's right to say, whenever it pleases, Sir, I propose to leave you.

I have invested a good deal in him, have increased his value by his being with me, and he has no right to run off with it.' "'But,' said the physician, 'how long should you feel that you have a right to his services ?' "'I will answer that,' said the gentleman, 'if you will say whether my general principle be correct.

Have I, or have I not acquired just what all intelligent slave-holders call "property" in that youth, that is, a right to his services,--not dominion over his soul, nor a right to abuse him, nor in any way to injure him, but to use his services.