You know, I don't like the way he goes on with the slaves.

They are not half so merry and happy as they used to be, and I don't like it.

We shall have one of them running away next, and that will be a nice thing on what used to be considered one of the happiest plantations in Virginia.

I can't make mother out; I should have thought that she would have been the last person in the world to have allowed the slaves to be harshly treated." "I am sure we don't like Jonas any more than you do, Vincent; but you see mamma has to depend upon him so much.

No, I don't think she can like it; but you can't have everything you like in a man, and I know she thinks he is a very good overseer.