But your tale brings me
consolation. There is yet hope that Miss Dumont is alive. The cruel
story of her death has darkened the abode of many a warm heart, even in
spite of the reflection that she was a slave. She was a true woman, and
I pray that God may spare her yet many years to bless the needy and the
unfortunate."
Dalhousie felt the full weight of Mr. Faxon's rebuke, and acknowledged
the justice of the punishment he had received. Uncle Nathan heard with
astonishment the wickedness of which the uncle of Emily had been guilty,
and his simple New England heart was sorely perplexed by it. He had no
"idea" of such depravity, and he was tempted, even in spite of the
Scripture injunction to the contrary, to "thank God that he was not like
other men."
In the course of the conversation to which the incidents of the evening
had given rise, the honest farmer found an opportunity to broach the
subject of his mission; and the time was occupied, until a late hour, in
discussing the means of doing justice to the injured, in restoring to
Bellevue its rightful mistress.
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