Uncle Tom's Cabin (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781512009644)

Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P--, in Kentucky. There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching, seemed to be discussing some subject with great earnestness. For convenience sake, we have said, hitherto, two gentlemen. One of the parties, however, when critically examined, did not seem, strictly speaking, to come under the species. He was a short, thick-set man, with coarse, commonplace features, and that swaggering air of pretension which marks a low man who is trying to elbow his way upward in the world. He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man. His hands, large and coarse, were plentifully bedecked with rings; and he wore a heavy gold watch-chain, with a bundle of seals of portentous size, and a great variety of colors, attached to it, -which, in the ardor of conversation, he was in the habit of flourishing and jingling with evident satisfaction. His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray's Grammar, * and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
ISBN-10: 1512009644
ISBN-13: 9781512009644
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/02/2015
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.38d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.3
Point Value: 32
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 16725 / Uncle Tom's Cabin