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He accepted new environment and circum- stance with great coolness, eating from his haver- sack at every opportunity.

On one was piled certain curiously twisted and complicated figures, called “nut-cakes,” On another were heaps of a black-looking sub stance, which, receiving its hue from molasses, was properly termed “sweet-cake ;” a wonderful favorite in the coterie of Remarkable, A third was filled, to use the language of the housekeeper, with “cards of gingerbread ;” and the last held a “ plum- cake,” so called from the number of large raisins that were showing their black heads in a substance of suspiciously similar color.

It was the first in- stance of harm being attempted to be done to me --at any rate, the first I had ever found out.

This in stance of neglect is characteristic of utter discour agement.

He took the peg switchboard of the telegraph, for in- stance, and developed it to its highest point, to a point that was not even imagined possible by any one else.

It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circum- stances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.

In them circum- stances it warn't no trouble to him to throw in an amount of style that was suitable.

In the course of his Narrative, he relates two in- stances of murderous cruelty,--in one of which a planter deliberately shot a slave belonging to a neigh- boring plantation, who had unintentionally gotten within his lordly domain in quest of fish; and in the other, an overseer blew out the brains of a slave who had fled to a stream of water to escape a bloody scourging.

Events have occurred which have not improved his temper, and in more in stances than one he has not been allowed to have his own way.

I think there is a good deal of moral strength in helping people in suchcircum stances."

The shell of the circum- stances of his life was broken and he was compelled to start forth.

The noise at night would have been annoying to me ordinarily, but I didn't mind it in the present circum- stances, because it kept me from hearing the quacks detaching legs and arms from the day's cripples.