Uncle Tom's Cabin

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - 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 [1] 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.