No master would be brutish enough to sell the man who had nursed him and his children, who loved him like a son, _even for urgent debt_, had he another article of property in the wide world.

But Mr.Shelby does so, according to Mrs.Stowe, though he has a great many other servants, besides houses and lands, &c.

Preposterous! And such a saint as Uncle Tom was, too! One would have thought his master, with the opinion he had of his religious qualifications, would have kept him until he died, and then have sold him bone after bone to the Roman Catholics.

Why, every tooth in his head would have brought its price.

St.
Paul was nothing but a common man compared with him, for St.Paul had been wicked once; and even after his miraculous conversion, he felt that sin was still impelling him to do what he would not.