But the worst of it was that he treated his own servants in the same summary fashion.

The thing that puzzled me most was the way in which they received it.

Mose, being always at hand, was cuffed about more than any negro on the place, but as far as I could make out, it only seemed to increase his love and veneration for the Colonel.

I don't believe the situation could ever be intelligible to a Northern man.
So matters stood when I had been a month at Four-Pools.

My vacation had lasted long enough, but I was supremely comfortable and very loath to go.