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"Lord bless you!--I'm skeered to look at ye, Lizy! Are ye tuck sick, or what's come over ye?" "I'm running away--Uncle Tom and Aunt Chloe--carrying off my child--Master sold him!" "Sold him?" echoed both, lifting up their hands in dismay. "Yes, sold him!" said Eliza, firmly; "I crept into the closet by Mistress' door tonight, and I heard Master tell Missis that he had sold my Harry, and you, Uncle Tom, both, to a trader; and that he was going off this morning on his horse, and that the man was to take possession today." Tom had stood, during this speech, with his hands raised, and his eyes dilated, like a man in a dream. Slowly and gradually, as its meaning came over him, he collapsed, rather than seated himself, on his old chair, and sunk his head down upon his knees. "The good Lord have pity on us!" said Aunt Chloe. "O! it don't seem as if it was true! What has he done, that Mas'r should sell _him_?" |
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