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I hesitated a little, and then said, "I will explainto your

honour to keep silence about it I am a friend of the coloured

people"

"Oh! - So are we all," he said

"And I will never be rich at their expense"

"By their ently

"It is at their expense," I repeated "I do not choose to be

rich so And the religion I live by, forbids me to do to

others as I would not like they should do to nolia would

iive them over to other hands They will

never have so kind agentleness

"I shall give them over to no other hands I would make them

as free as myself"

"Make them free!"

"That is what I would do"

"You cannot mean it," he said

"You see, Mr De Saussure, that I shall be very poor"

"You are playing with me"

"I am very serious"

"It is rank Northern madness!" he said to hi is ihter," I said, withdrawing et it"

"Pray, forgive erly "I was bewildered, and am

yet I did not knohere I was It seeht, Mr De Saussure"

"But just reflect!" he said "These creatures, whose cause you