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"It may do for your people,
who live in settlements, to hasten on to their houses; but, thank
Heaven! my farm is too big for its owner ever to want a resting-
place."
"Since you like the plantation, then, you have only to make your
crop."
"That is easier said than done, on this corner of the estate. I tell
you, Abiram, there is need of moving, for more reasons than one. You
know I'm a man that very seldom enters into a bargain, but who always
fulfils his agreements better than your dealers in wordy contracts
written on rags of paper. If there's one mile, there ar' a hundred
still needed to make up the distance for which you have my honour."
As he spoke, the squatter glanced his eye upward at the little
tenement of cloth which crowned the summit of his ragged fortress. The
look was understood and answered by the other; and by some secret
influence, which operated either through their interests or feelings,
it served to re-establish that harmony between them, which had just
been threatened with something like a momentary breach.


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