1 "Don't fear," said his wife, hopefully.
2 "It is a fearful one to us," said Miss Ophelia.
3 Never you fear for us; possession is our nine points.
4 Only the hunt coming back," said Cassy, coolly; "never fear.
5 Legree's knees knocked together; his face grew white with fear.
6 "Don't fear, Chloe; I'll take care of the honor of the family," said Mrs. Shelby, smiling.
7 Cassy entered the room, and found Emmeline sitting, pale with fear, in the furthest corner of it.
8 He was always finding fault, and quarrelling with him; and I used to live in daily fear and dread.
9 But stronger than all was maternal love, wrought into a paroxysm of frenzy by the near approach of a fearful danger.
10 A wild gust of wind swept down, extinguishing the candle he held in his hand, and with it the fearful, unearthly screams; they seemed to be shrieked in his very ear.
11 Legree fled frantically into the parlor, whither, in a few moments, he was followed by Cassy, pale, calm, cold as an avenging spirit, and with that same fearful light in her eye.
12 His only daughter was exceedingly delicate, and he feared that, with no one to look after her and attend to her, her health and life might yet fall a sacrifice to her mother's inefficiency.
13 Past now the bleeding of earthly regrets; past its fluctuations of hope, and fear, and desire; the human will, bent, and bleeding, and struggling long, was now entirely merged in the Divine.
14 Then it seemed to him he was on the edge of a frightful abyss, holding on and struggling in mortal fear, while dark hands stretched up, and were pulling him over; and Cassy came behind him laughing, and pushed him.
15 Briskness, alertness, and cheerfulness of appearance, especially before observers, are constantly enforced upon them, both by the hope of thereby getting a good master, and the fear of all that the driver may bring upon them if they prove unsalable.
16 This night, however, in his feverish efforts to banish from his mind those fearful elements of woe and remorse which woke within him, he had indulged more than common; so that, when he had discharged his sable attendants, he fell heavily on a settle in the room, and was sound asleep.
17 He would have been ashamed to tell of it, but large drops of sweat stood on his forehead, his heart beat heavy and thick with fear; he even thought he saw something white rising and glimmering in the gloom before him, and shuddered to think what if the form of his dead mother should suddenly appear to him.
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