The one passion, the one softness, showed in his love for horses.

He broke the colts for half the county; there was no horse that he could not ride, and his great form and coal-black locks were looked for and found at every race.

The mare that he was riding he had bought with his legacy, before he bought the land on the Three-Notched Road.

He was now considering whether he could afford to buy in Richmond a likely negro to help him and Lewis in the fields.

With all the stubbornness of a dull mind, he meant to keep Lewis in the fields.