Uncle Tom's CabinLate in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P - , in Kentucky. There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching, seemed to be discussing some subject with great earnestness. For convenience sake, we have said, hitherto, two gentlemen. One of the parties, however, when critically examined, did not seem, strictly speaking, to come under the species. He was a short, thick-set man, with coarse, commonplace features, and that swaggering air of pretension which marks a low man who is trying to elbow his way upward in the world. He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man. His hands, large and coarse, were plentifully bedecked with rings; and he wore a heavy gold watch-chain, with a bundle of seals of portentous size, and a great variety of colors, attached to it, - which, in the ardor of conversation, he was in the habit of flourishing and jingling with evident satisfaction. His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray's Grammar, [1] and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe. |
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Section 2 | 26 |
Section 3 | 34 |
Section 4 | 52 |
Section 5 | 65 |
Section 6 | 80 |
Section 7 | 101 |
Section 8 | 125 |
Section 23 | 442 |
Section 24 | 452 |
Section 25 | 460 |
Section 26 | 482 |
Section 27 | 494 |
Section 28 | 517 |
Section 29 | 529 |
Section 30 | 545 |
Section 9 | 151 |
Section 10 | 167 |
Section 11 | 188 |
Section 12 | 216 |
Section 13 | 231 |
Section 14 | 247 |
Section 15 | 272 |
Section 16 | 301 |
Section 17 | 327 |
Section 18 | 353 |
Section 19 | 383 |
Section 20 | 408 |
Section 21 | 417 |
Section 22 | 429 |
Section 31 | 555 |
Section 32 | 569 |
Section 33 | 581 |
Section 34 | 597 |
Section 35 | 607 |
Section 36 | 618 |
Section 37 | 629 |
Section 38 | 645 |
Section 39 | 661 |
Section 40 | 672 |
Section 41 | 683 |
Section 42 | 694 |
Section 43 | 706 |
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