A miserable land must that be, where they fetter
the mind as well as the body, and where the creatures of God, being
born children, are kept so by the wicked inventions of men who would
take upon themselves the office of the great Governor of all!"
During the delivery of this pertinent opinion, Ishmael was content to
be silent, though the look, with which he regarded the speaker,
manifested any other feeling than that of amity. When the old man was
done, he turned to Middleton, and continued the subject which the
other had interrupted.
"As to ourselves, young Captain, there has been wrong on both sides.
If I have borne hard upon your feelings, in taking away your wife with
an honest intention of giving her back to you, when the plans of that
devil incarnate were answered, so have you broken into my encampment,
aiding and abetting, as they have called many an honester bargain, in
destroying my property."
"But what I did was to liberate--"
"The matter is settled between us," interrupted Ishmael, with the air
of one who, having made up his own opinion on the merits of the
question, cared very little for those of other people; "you and your
wife are free to go and come, when and how you please.
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