I perceived your interest.

At the time I resented it." "You resented it ?" There was a challenge in her boyish voice.
"I have had no lack of experiences of this mortal life; but to be bought and sold was a new one, and I was hardly in the mood to love my purchaser." "If I urged you upon my uncle, sir, it was that I commiserated you." There was a slight severity in her tone, as if to reprove the mixture of mockery and flippancy in which he seemed to be speaking.
She proceeded to explain herself.

"My uncle may appear to you a hard man.

No doubt he is.

They are all hard men, these planters.