1 Tom put up his hand, and held it close to his heart.
2 I wish I could be good; but my heart burns, and can't be reconciled, anyhow.
3 Tom drew a long breath from a sore heart, and tried, in his poor way, to comfort him.
4 I an't a Christian like you, Eliza; my heart's full of bitterness; I can't trust in God.
5 Boys," said Haley, coming up, briskly, "I hope you keep up good heart, and are cheerful.
6 His heart was exactly where yours, sir, and mine could be brought, with proper effort and cultivation.
7 But over his heart there seemed to be a warm spot, where those young hands had placed that precious dollar.
8 "Your heart is better than your head, in this case, John," said the wife, laying her little white hand on his.
9 "Pity, now, Tom couldn't," said Aunt Chloe, on whose benevolent heart the idea of Tom's benighted condition seemed to make a strong impression.
10 O, it does," said the first lady, eagerly; "I've lived many years in Kentucky and Virginia both, and I've seen enough to make any one's heart sick.
11 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.
12 The frosty ground creaked beneath her feet, and she trembled at the sound; every quaking leaf and fluttering shadow sent the blood backward to her heart, and quickened her footsteps.
13 And she saw sunshine sparkling on the water, in golden ripples, and heard gay voices, full of ease and pleasure, talking around her everywhere; but her heart lay as if a great stone had fallen on it.
14 Tom received this agreeable intelligence quite meekly; simply wondering, in his own heart, how many of these doomed men had wives and children, and whether they would feel as he did about leaving them.
15 Here, also, in summer, various brilliant annuals, such as marigolds, petunias, four-o'clocks, found an indulgent corner in which to unfold their splendors, and were the delight and pride of Aunt Chloe's heart.
16 He really pitied George with all his heart, and had a sort of dim and cloudy perception of the style of feeling that agitated him; but he deemed it his duty to go on talking good to him, with infinite pertinacity.
17 Having "nothing of the bear about him but the skin," and being gifted by nature with a great, honest, just heart, quite equal to his gigantic frame, he had been for some years witnessing with repressed uneasiness the workings of a system equally bad for oppressor and oppressed.
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