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Show 270 UNCLE TOM'S CABIN: On, what have ·we done, more than all the rest of the world, that we should be treated so 1" There was a terrible earnestness in her £'lee and voice, as she spoke. "If it wasn't for you, child," she said, looking :tt Emmeline, ':I'd go out to them; and I'd thank any one of them that would shoot me down; for what usc will freedom be to me? Can it give me back my children, or make me what I used to be?" Emmeline, in her child-like simplicity, was half afmid of tho dark moods of Cassy. She looked perplexed, but made no answer. She only took her hand, with a gentle, caressing movement. "Don't!" said Cassy, trying to draw it away; "you'll get me to loving you; and I never mean to love anything, at,rnin! '' "Poor Cassy!" said Emmeline, "don't feel so! If tho Lord gives us liberty, perhaps he'll give you back your daughter; at any rate, I '11 be like a daughter to you. I know I ' II never see my poor old mother again! I shall love you, Cass y, w bother you love me or not ! '' The gentle, child-like spirit conquered. Cassy sat down by her, put her arm round her neck, stroked her soft, brown hair; and Emmeline then wondered at the bccmty of her magnificent eyes, now soft with tears. "0, Em!" said Cassy, "I've hungered for my children,. ancl thirsted for them, and my eyes fail with longing for them! Here! here!" she said, striking her breast, :(it's all desolate, all empty! If God would give me back my children, then I could pray." "You must trust him, Cassy," said Emmeline; '' he is our l!""athcr! '' LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY. 271 "His wrath is upon us," said Cassy; 11 he has turned away in anger." "No, Cassy! He will be good to us! Lot us hope in Ilim," said Emmeline,-" I always have had hope." * • • * • * The hunt was long, animated, and thorough, but unsuccessful; and, with gra.Yc, ironic exultation, Cassy looked down on Legree, as, weary and dispirited, he a,lighted from his horse. ''Now, Quimbo,'' said Legree, as he stretched himself clown in the sitting-room, "you jest go and walk that Tom up here, right a.way! Tlte old cuss is nt the bottom of this ycr whole matter i and I 'll have it out of his old black hide, or I 'Jl know the reason wlty ! " Sambo and Quimbo, both, though hating each other, were joined in one mind by a. no less cordial hatred of rrom. Legree bad told them, at first, that he had bought him for a general overseer, in his absence; and this had begun an ill wm, on their part, which had increased, in their debased and servile natures, as they saw him becoming obnoxious to their master's displeasure. Quimbo, therefore, departed, with a will, to execute his orders. ~rom heard tho message with a forewarning heart; for he knew all tho plan of the fugitives' escape, and the place of their present concealment; - he knew tho deadly character of the man he had to deal with, and his despotic power. But he felt strong in God to meet death, rather than betray the helpless. lie sot his basket down by the row, and, looking up, said, "Into thy hands I commend my spirit! Thou hast redeemed me, oh Lord God of truth!" and then quietly yielded himself to the rough, brutal g1·asp with which Quimbo seized him. "Ay, ay! " said the giant, as he dragged him along |
