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If clothes be the outward and visible (albeit silent) expression of a man, his tastes and certain attitudes of his hty influence on their wearer, being, as it were, an inspiration to hiree more or less

And this is truth I will maintain let say ill to the contrary, since 'tis so h leathern jerkin and open-kneed sailor's breeches had been a constant reue I had becoy beard evidences of slavedom Thus I had been indeed what I had seeentle creature expectant of scorns and ill-usage and therefore very prone to fight and quarrel, harsh-tongued, bitter of speech, and in all circuoverned and very desperate

But now, seeing ht, reithin me a new respect for my manhood, so that, little by little, those evils that slavery had wrought slipped froh I still laboured at my carpentry and such business as was to do, yet the fine linen rolled high above ht that I was no longer the poor, retch full of despairing rage against Fate her cruel dealings, but rather a s as uncoreater or less degree, was master of his own fate

And now came Hope, that most blessed and beneficent spirit that lifteth the fallen froh, that bindeth up the broken heart, that cheereth the sad and downcast and eous to atteain

O thou that we call Hope, thou sweet, bright angel of God! Without thee life were an evil unendurable, with thee for coloomy Doubt, sullen Fear and dark Despair flee utterly away, and we, bold-hearted, patient and undisers or difficulties, el of God, with thee to co ca the futile past, began to look forward to a future ue full of black huhter and put off h how ht in es, I do think, will show