We must do the best we can to restore her to health.

She is very happy with us now, and will, no doubt, after a while, enjoy her liberty: it would be a most unnatural thing if she did not." "But how is it, Mr.Kent," said the colonel, "that after you induce these poor devils to give up their homes, that you do not start them in life; set them going in some way in the new world to which you transfer them.

You do not give them a copper, I am told." "We don't calculate to do that," said Mr.Kent.
"I believe you," said Mrs.Moore, maliciously.
Mr.Kent looked indignant at the interruption, while his discomfiture was very amusing to the young officers, they being devoted admirers of Mrs.
Moore's talents and mince pies.

They laughed heartily; and Mr.Kent looked at them as if nothing would have induced him to overlook their impertinence but the fact, that they were very low on the list of lieutenants, and he was an abolition agent.

"We calculate, sir, to give them their freedom, and then let them look out for themselves." "That is, you have no objection to their living in the same world with yourself, provided it costs you nothing," said the colonel.
"We make them free," said Mr.Kent.