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talk of law, as if you knew of none, and yet you keep me down, as
though I had not life and wants of my own. I'll stay no longer to he
treated like one of your meanest cattle!"
"The world is wide, my gallant boy, and there's many a noble
plantation on it, without a tenant. Go; you have title deeds signed
and sealed to your hand. Few fathers portion their children better
than Ishmael Bush; you will say that for me, at least, when you get to
be a wealthy landholder."
"Look! father, look!" exclaimed several voices at once, seizing with
avidity, an opportunity to interrupt a dialogue which threatened to
become more violent.
"Look!" repeated Abiram, in a voice which sounded hollow and warning;
"if you have time for any thing but quarrels, Ishmael, look!"
The squatter turned slowly from his offending son, and cast an eye,
that still lowered with deep resentment upward; but which, the instant
it caught a view of the object that now attracted the attention of all
around him, changed its expression to one of astonishment and dismay.


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