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1  Eliza trembled, and was silent.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Well, then, Eliza, hear my plan.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
3  But really, Eliza, you are getting altogether too proud of that little fellow.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
4  I an't a Christian like you, Eliza; my heart's full of bitterness; I can't trust in God.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
5  Eliza had been brought up by her mistress, from girlhood, as a petted and indulged favorite.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
6  "Well, now, good-by," said George, holding Eliza's hands, and gazing into her eyes, without moving.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
7  Surprised and frightened, Eliza sat down, leaned her head on her husband's shoulder, and burst into tears.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
8  Eliza, such as we have described her, is not a fancy sketch, but taken from remembrance, as we saw her, years ago, in Kentucky.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
9  Reassured by her mistress' confident tone, Eliza proceeded nimbly and adroitly with her toilet, laughing at her own fears, as she proceeded.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
10  Safe under the protecting care of her mistress, Eliza had reached maturity without those temptations which make beauty so fatal an inheritance to a slave.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
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11  Mrs. Shelby had gone on her visit, and Eliza stood in the verandah, rather dejectedly looking after the retreating carriage, when a hand was laid on her shoulder.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
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12  Now, it had so happened that, in approaching the door, Eliza had caught enough of the conversation to know that a trader was making offers to her master for somebody.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
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13  The words smote heavily on Eliza's heart; the vision of the trader came before her eyes, and, as if some one had struck her a deadly blow, she turned pale and gasped for breath.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
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14  Mrs. Shelby, being entirely ignorant of her husband's embarrassments, and knowing only the general kindliness of his temper, had been quite sincere in the entire incredulity with which she had met Eliza's suspicions.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
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15  He was lounging in a large easy-chair, looking over some letters that had come in the afternoon mail, and she was standing before her mirror, brushing out the complicated braids and curls in which Eliza had arranged her hair; for, noticing her pale cheeks and haggard eyes, she had excused her attendance that night, and ordered her to bed.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
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16  After the birth of little Harry, however, she had gradually become tranquillized and settled; and every bleeding tie and throbbing nerve, once more entwined with that little life, seemed to become sound and healthful, and Eliza was a happy woman up to the time that her husband was rudely torn from his kind employer, and brought under the iron sway of his legal owner.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
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17  For a year or two Eliza saw her husband frequently, and there was nothing to interrupt their happiness, except the loss of two infant children, to whom she was passionately attached, and whom she mourned with a grief so intense as to call for gentle remonstrance from her mistress, who sought, with maternal anxiety, to direct her naturally passionate feelings within the bounds of reason and religion.
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