I knew there was to be some more of it, and there was.
Hunt's brother offered back half the money; _offered_ it! why, he tried to force it on the fellow, and couldn't.

His master wouldn't let him buy himself and his wife,--I suspect, out of sheer cussedness,--and he hadn't any other use for money, he said.

Besides, he didn't want to take, and wouldn't take, anything that looked like pay for doing aught for a 'Linkum sojer,' alive or dead.
"'They'se going to make us all free, sometime,' he said, 'that's enough.
Don't look like it, jest yet, I knows; but I lives in faith; it'll come byumby' When the fellow said that, I declare to you, Surrey, I felt like hiding my face.

At last I began to comprehend what your indignation meant against the order forbidding slaves coming into our lines, and commanding their return when they succeed in entering.

Just then we all seemed to me meaner than dirt." "As we are; and, as dirt, deserve to be trampled underfoot, beaten, defeated, till we're ready to stand up and fight like men in this struggle." "Amen to that, Colonel," added Whittlesly.
"Well, I'm pretty nearly ready to say so myself," finished Brooks, half reluctantly..