You have a kind master, that won?t refuse to sell youI?ll buy you and the boy;?God helping me, I will!? ?O, dreadful! if you should be taken?? ?I won?t be taken, Eliza; I?ll die first! I?ll be free, or I?ll die!? ?You won?t kill yourself!? ?No need of thatThey will kill me, fast enough; they never will get me down the river alive!? ?O, George, for my sake, do be careful! Don?t do anything wicked; don?t lay hands on yourself, or anybody else! You are tempted too much?too much; but don?t?go you must?but go carefully, prudently; pray God to help you ?Well, then, Eliza, hear my planMas?r took it into his head to send me right by here, with a note to MrSymmes, that lives a mile pastI believe he expected I should come here to tell you what I haveIt would please him, if he thought it would aggravate ?Shelby?s folks,? as he calls ?emI?m going home quite resigned, you understand, as if all was overI?ve got some preparations made,?and there are those that will help me; and, in the course of a week or so, I shall be among the missing, some dayPray for me, Eliza; perhaps the good Lord will hear you ?O, pray yourself, George, and go trusting in him; then you won?t do anything wicked ?Well, now, good-by,? said George, holding Eliza?s hands, and gazing into her eyes, without movingThey stood silent; then there were last words, and sobs, and bitter weeping,?such parting as those may make whose hope to meet again is as the spider?s web,?and the husband and wife were parted Chapter 4 An Evening in Uncle Tom?s Cabin The cabin of Uncle Tom was a small log building, close adjoining to ?the house,? as the negro par excellence designates his master?s dwellingIn front it had a neat garden-patch, where, every summer, strawberries, raspberries, and a variety of fruits and vegetables, flourished under careful tendingThe whole front of it was covered by a large scarlet bignonia and a native multiflora rose, which, entwisting and interlacing, left scarce a vestige of the rough logs to be seenHere, 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 Let us enter the dwellingThe evening meal at the house is over, and Aunt Chloe, who presided over its preparation as head cook, has left to inferior officers in the kitchen the business of clearing away and washing dishes, and come out into her own snug territories, to ?get her ole man?s supper?; therefore, doubt not that it is her you see by the fire, presiding with anxious interest over certain frizzling items in a stew-pan, and anon with grave consideration lifting the cover of a bake-kettle, from whence steam forth indubitable intimations of ?something good A round, black, shining face is hers, so glossy as to suggest the idea that she might have been washed over with white of eggs, like one of her own tea rusksHer whole plump countenance beams with satisfaction and contentment from under her well-starched checked turban, bearing on it, however, if we must confess it, a little of that tinge of self-consciousness which becomes the first cook of the neighborhood, as Aunt Chloe was universally held and acknowledged to be A cook she certainly was, in the very bone and centre of her soulNot a chicken or turkey or duck in the barn-yard but looked grave when they saw her approaching, and seemed evidently to be reflecting on their latter end; and certain it was that she was always meditating on trussing, stuffing and roasting, to a degree that was calculated to inspire terror in any reflecting fowl livingHer corn-cake, in all its varieties of hoe-cake, dodgers, muffins, and other species too numerous to mention, was a sublime mystery to all less practised compounders; and she would shake her fat sides with honest pride and merriment, as she would narrate the fruitless efforts that one and another of her compeers had made to attain to her elevation The arrival of company at the house, the arranging of dinners and suppers ?in style,? awoke all the energies of her soul; and no sight was more welcome to her than a pile of travelling trunks launched on the verandah, for then she foresaw fresh efforts and fresh triumphs Just at present, however, Aunt Chloe is looking into the bake-pan; in which congenial operation we shall leave her till we finish our picture of the cottage In one corner of it stood a bed, covered neatly with a snowy spread; and by the side of it was a piece of carpeting, of some considerable sizeOn this piece of carpeting Aunt Chloe took her stand, as being decidedly in the upper walks of life; and it and the bed by which it lay, and the whole corner, in fact, were treated with distinguished consideration, and made, so far as possible, sacred from the marauding inroads and desecrations of little folksIn fact, that corner was the drawing-room of the establishmentIn the other corner was a bed of much humbler pretensions, and evidently designed for useThe wall over the fireplace was adorned with some very brilliant scriptural prints, and a portrait of General Washington, drawn and colored in a manner which would certainly have astonished that hero, if ever he happened to meet with its like On a rough bench in the corner, a couple of woolly-headed boys, with glistening black eyes and fat shining cheeks, were busy in superintending the first walking operations of the baby, which, as is usually the case, consisted in getting up on its feet, balancing a moment, and then tumbling down,?each successive failure being violently cheered, as something decidedly clever A table, somewhat rheumatic in its limbs, was drawn out in front of the fire, and covered with a cloth, displaying cups and saucers of a decidedly brilliant pattern, with other symptoms of an approaching mealAt this table was seated Uncle Tom, MrShelby?s best hand, who, as he is to be the hero of our story, we must daguerreotype for our readersHe was a large, broad-chested, powerfully-made man, of a full glossy black, and a face whose truly African features were characterized by an expression of grave and steady good sense, united with much kindliness and benevolenceThere was something about his whole air self-respecting and dignified, yet united with a confiding and humble simplicity He was very busily intent at this moment on a slate lying before him, on which he was carefully and slowly endeavoring to accomplish a copy of some letters, in which operation he was overlooked by young Mas?r George, a smart, bright boy of thirteen, who appeared fully to realize the dignity of his position as instructor ?Not that way, Uncle Tom,?not that way,? said he, briskly, as Uncle Tom laboriously brought up the tail of his g the wrong side out; ?that makes a q, you shop see

The party who insisted that an erasure had been made, availed themselves of the knowledge of MGazzeri, who, concluding that those who committed the fraud would be satisfied by the disappearance of the colouring matter of the ink, suspected (either from some colourless matter remaining in the letters, or perhaps from the agency of the solvent having weakened the fabric of the paper itself beneath the supposed letters) that the effect of the slow application of heat would be to render some difference of texture or of applied substance evident, by some variety in the shade of colour which heat in such circumstances might be expected to produce Permission having been given to try the experiment, on the application of heat the important word reappeared, to the great satisfaction of the court CHAPTER VI SUGGESTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE IN ENGLAND OF THE NECESSITY THAT MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SHOULD EXPRESS THEIR OPINIONS One of the causes which has contributed to the success of the PARTY, is to be found in the great reluctance with which many of those whose names added lustre to the Society expressed their opinions, and the little firmness with which they maintained their objections How many times have those whose activity was additionally stimulated by their interest, proposed measures which a few words might have checked; whilst the names of those whose culpable silence thus permitted the project to be matured, were immediately afterwards cited by their grateful coadjutors, as having sanctioned that which in their hearts they knew to be a job Even in the few cases which have passed the limits of such forbearance, when the subject has been debated in the Council, more than one, more than two instances are known, where subsequent circumstances have occurred, which proved, with the most irresistible moral evidence, that members have spoken on one side of the question, and have voted on the contrary This reluctance to oppose that which is disapproved, has been too extensively and too fatally prevalent for the interests of the Royal Society It may partly be attributed to that reserved and retiring disposition, which frequently marks the man of real knowledge, as strongly as an officious interference and flippant manner do the charlatan, or the trader in scienceSome portion of it is due to that improper deference which was long paid to every dictum of the President, and much of it to that natural indisposition to take trouble on any point in which a man's own interest is not immediately concerned It is to be hoped, for the credit of that learned body, that no anticipation of the next feast of StAndrew ever influenced the taciturnity of their disposition [It may be necessary to inform those who are not members of the Royal Society, that this is the day on which those Fellows who choose, meet at Somerset House, to register the names of the Council and Officers the President has been pleased to appoint for the ensuing year; and who afterwards dine together, for the purpose of praising each other over wine, which, until within these few years, was PAID for out of the FUNDS of the Society This abuse was attacked by an enterprising reformer, and of course defended by the coterie It was, however, given up as too bad The public may form some idea of the feeling which prevails in the Council, when they are informed that this practice was defended by one of the officers of the Society, on the ground that, if abolished, THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY WOULD LOSE HIS PERCENTAGE ON THE TAVERN BILLS SECTION 2 OF BIENNIAL PRESIDENTS The days in which the Royal Society can have much influence in science seem long past; nor does it appear a matter of great importance who conduct its mismanaged affairs Perpetual Presidents have been tried until the Society has become disgusted with dictators If any reform should be attempted, it might perhaps be deserving consideration whether the practice of several of the younger institutions might not be worthy imitation, and the office of President be continued only during two sessions There may be some inconveniences attending this arrangement; but the advantages are conspicuous, both in the Astronomical and Geological SocietiesEach President is ambitious of rendering the period of his reign remarkable for some improvement in the Society over which he presides; and the sacrifice of time which is made by the officers of those Societies, would become impossible if it were required to be continued for a much longer period Another circumstance of considerable importance is, that the personal character of the President is less impressed on the Society; and, supposing any injudicious alterations to be made, it is much less difficult to correct them OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE COLLEGES OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS IN THE ROYAL SOCIETY The honour of belonging to the Royal Society is much sought after by medical men, as contributing to the success of their professional efforts, and two consequences result from it In the first place, the pages of the Transactions of the Royal Society occasionally contain medical papers of very moderate merit; and, in the second, the preponderance of the medical interest introduces into the Society some of the jealousies of that profession On the other hand, medicine is intimately connected with many sciences, and its professors are usually too much occupied in their practice to exert themselves, except upon great occasions OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY The Royal Institution was founded for the cultivation of the more popular and elementary branches of scientific knowledge, and has risen, partly from the splendid discoveries of Davy, and partly from the decline of the Royal Society, to a more prominent station than it would otherwise have occupied in the science of England Its general effects in diffusing knowledge among the more educated classes of the metropolis, have been, and continue to be, valuable Its influence, however, in the government of the Royal Society, is by no means attended with similar advantages, and has justly been viewed with considerable jealousy by many of the Fellows of that bodyIt may be stated, without disparagement to the Royal Institution, that the scientific qualifications necessary for its officers, however respectable, are not quite of that high order which ought to be required for those of the Royal Society, if the latter body were in a state of vigour The Royal Institution interest has always been sufficient to appoint one of the Secretaries of the Royal Society; and at the present moment they have appointed two In a short time, unless some effectual check is put to this, we shall find them nominating the President and the rest of the officers It is certainly not consistent with the dignity of the Royal Society thus to allow its offices to be given away as the rewards of services rendered to other institutions The only effectual way to put a stop to this increasing interest would be, to declare that no manager or officer of the Royal Institution should ever, at the same time, hold office in the Royal Society The use the Members of the Royal Institution endeavour to make of their power in the Council of the Royal Society, is exemplified in the minutes of the Council of March 11, 1830, which may be consulted with advantage by those who shop doubt

A thousand lives seemed to be concentrated in that one moment to ElizaHer room opened by a side door to the riverShe caught her child, and sprang down the steps towards itThe trader caught a full glimpse of her just as she was disappearing down the bank; and throwing himself from his horse, and calling loudly on Sam and Andy, he was after her like a hound after a deerIn that dizzy moment her feet to her scarce seemed to touch the ground, and a moment brought her to the water?s edgeRight on behind they came; and, nerved with strength such as God gives only to the desperate, with one wild cry and flying leap, she vaulted sheer over the turbid current by the shore, on to the raft of ice beyondIt was a desperate leap?impossible to anything but madness and despair; and Haley, Sam, and Andy, instinctively cried out, and lifted up their hands, as she did it The huge green fragment of ice on which she alighted pitched and creaked as her weight came on it, but she staid there not a momentWith wild cries and desperate energy she leaped to another and still another cake; stumbling?leaping?slipping?springing upwards again! Her shoes are gone?her stockings cut from her feet?while blood marked every step; but she saw nothing, felt nothing, till dimly, as in a dream, she saw the Ohio side, and a man helping her up the bank ?Yer a brave gal, now, whoever ye ar!? said the man, with an oath Eliza recognized the voice and face for a man who owned a farm not far from her old homeSymmes!?save me?do save me?do hide me!? said Elia ?Why, what?s this?? said the man?Why, if ?tan?t Shelby?s gal!? ?My child!?this boy!?he?d sold him! There is his Mas?r,? said she, pointing to the Kentucky shoreSymmes, you?ve got a little boy!? ?So I have,? said the man, as he roughly, but kindly, drew her up the steep bank?Besides, you?re a right brave galI like grit, wherever I see it When they had gained the top of the bank, the man paused ?I?d be glad to do something for ye,? said he; ?but then there?s nowhar I could take yeThe best I can do is to tell ye to go thar,? said he, pointing to a large white house which stood by itself, off the main street of the village?Go thar; they?re kind folksThar?s no kind o? danger but they?ll help you,?they?re up to all that sort o? thing ?The Lord bless you!? said Eliza, earnestly ?No ?casion, no ?casion in the world,? said the man?What I?ve done?s of no ?count ?And, oh, surely, sir, you won?t tell any one!? ?Go to thunder, gal! What do you take a feller for? In course not,? said the man?Come, now, go along like a likely, sensible gal, as you areYou?ve arnt your liberty, and you shall have it, for all me The woman folded her child to her bosom, and walked firmly and swiftly awayThe man stood and looked after her ?Shelby, now, mebbe won?t think this yer the most neighborly thing in the world; but what?s a feller to do? If he catches one of my gals in the same fix, he?s welcome to pay backSomehow I never could see no kind o? critter a strivin? and pantin?, and trying to clar theirselves, with the dogs arter ?em and go agin ?emBesides, I don?t see no kind of ?casion for me to be hunter and catcher for other folks, neither So spoke this poor, heathenish Kentuckian, who had not been instructed in his constitutional relations, and consequently was betrayed into acting in a sort of Christianized manner, which, if he had been better situated and more enlightened, he would not have been left to do Haley had stood a perfectly amazed spectator of the scene, till Eliza had disappeared up the bank, when he turned a blank, inquiring look on Sam and Andy ?That ar was a tolable fair stroke of business,? said Sam ?The gal ?s got seven devils in her, I believe!? said Haley?How like a wildcat she jumped!? ?Wal, now,? said Sam, scratching his head, ?I hope Mas?r?ll ?scuse us trying dat ar roadDon?t think I feel spry enough for dat ar, no way!? and Sam gave a hoarse chuckle ?You laugh!? said the trader, with a shop growl

When the Chous saw his unsmiling countenance and his pale face, they were a little bewilderedThen suddenly exchanging glances with each other as though they understood their son-in-law's state of mind, they scolded their son Hsiao-ch'eng in unison, "You deserve a spankingWho told you to inter rupt when adults are talking? Your brother Hung-chien just came back to dayOf course, he's unhappy at the thoughts of your sisterYour joking can go too farFrom now on, you're to keep your mouth shutHung-chien, we know you have a kindly naturePay no attention to the child's nonsense Fang Hung-chien again blushed crimsonPuffing out his cheeks, Hsiao ch'eng thought resentfully, Don't you put on! If you were any good, you'd never get married for the rest of your lifeI don't care about your penYou can just take it back When Fang returned to his room, he discovered Shu-ying's picture was missing from the tableHe thought probably his mother-in-law, afraid that he'd be reminded of Shu-ying by the picture and become too grief-stricken, had come especially to remove it It had been only six or seven hours since he left the ship, yet everything that had happened there seemed to belong to another worldAll his excite ment about going ashore having evaporated, he felt small and weak, thinking a job would be hard to find and romance difficult to achieveAs he had pic tured it, returning home after study abroad was like water on the ground turning to vapor and rising to the sky, then changing again to rain and re turning to the earth, while the whole world looked on and talked about itHis return home from thousands of miles away hadn't raised a single fleck of froth on the sea of his fellow countrymenNow, thanks to all the blather~ spewing out of Chief-secretary Wang's pen, he had been blown up into a big soap bubble, bright and colorful while it lasted but gone at a single jab Leaning against the window screen he gazed outside The stars filling the~ sky were dense and busyThey remained completely still, yet watching them made him think the sky was bustling noisilyThe crescent moon seemingly resembled a girl that is not yet full-grown but already able to face the world unabashedIts light and contours were fresh and sharp, gradually standing out against the night settingThe tiny insects in the garden grass hummed and buzzed, engaged in a nocturnal conversationFrom somewhere a pack of frogs croaked hoarsely, their mouths, lips, throats, and tongues working in unison as though the sound waves were being stewed over a fire until they 32 bubbled: "Brekekey Coky Coky," like the chorus in Aristophanes' comedies, or of Yale University's cheerleadersA few fireflies gracefully passed to and fro, not as if flying but as though floating in the dense atmosphereA dark area beyond the reach of moonlight was suddenly lit up by a firefly's speck of light, like a tiny greenish eye in the summer night This was the scene familiar to him before going abroad; but now when he saw it, his heart suddenly con tracted in pain, his eyes smarted on the verge of tears, and then he understood life's beauty and goodness and the joy of coming homeSuch things as the item in the Shanghai newspaper were no more worth troubling over than the hum of insects outside the screenHe sighed comfortably, then yawned broadly When he stepped off the train at his home district station, his father, his youngest brother Feng-i, as well as seven or eight uncles, cousins, and friends of his father were all there on the platform to meet him He was quite dis mayed, and greeting each in turn said, "On such a hot day as this, I've really imposed on you too much And observing how his father's beard had grayed, he said, "Papa, you shouldn't have come!" His father, Fang Tung-weng, handed him his folding fan, saying, "You people in Western suits won't need this antique, but it's better than fanning yourself with a straw hat When he saw his son had traveled second class, he praised him"Such a fine lad! He came back on the boat in second class, so I thought for sure he'd go first class on the train, but still he went second classHe hasn't become haughty and proud and changed his true natureHe already knows how to conduct himself Everyone echoed his praise They had jostled their way out of the ticket gate when suddenly a man wearing blue glasses and a Western suit caught hold of Fang Hung-chien and said, "Hold it, please! We're taking a picture Bewildered, Hung-chien was just about to ask him what for, when he heard the click of a camera, and the man in blue glasses let go of his shop arm

Though he pre vented his anger from showing on his face, his voice was hoarse When the Chous saw his unsmiling countenance and his pale face, they were a little bewilderedThen suddenly exchanging glances with each other as though they understood their son-in-law's state of mind, they scolded their son Hsiao-ch'eng in unison, "You deserve a spankingWho told you to inter rupt when adults are talking? Your brother Hung-chien just came back to dayOf course, he's unhappy at the thoughts of your sisterYour joking can go too farFrom now on, you're to keep your mouth shutHung-chien, we know you have a kindly naturePay no attention to the child's nonsense Fang Hung-chien again blushed crimsonPuffing out his cheeks, Hsiao ch'eng thought resentfully, Don't you put on! If you were any good, you'd never get married for the rest of your lifeI don't care about your penYou can just take it back When Fang returned to his room, he discovered Shu-ying's picture was missing from the tableHe thought probably his mother-in-law, afraid that he'd be reminded of Shu-ying by the picture and become too grief-stricken, had come especially to remove it It had been only six or seven hours since he left the ship, yet everything that had happened there seemed to belong to another worldAll his excite ment about going ashore having evaporated, he felt small and weak, thinking a job would be hard to find and romance difficult to achieveAs he had pic tured it, returning home after study abroad was like water on the ground turning to vapor and rising to the sky, then changing again to rain and re turning to the earth, while the whole world looked on and talked about itHis return home from thousands of miles away hadn't raised a single fleck of froth on the sea of his fellow countrymenNow, thanks to all the blather~ spewing out of Chief-secretary Wang's pen, he had been blown up into a big soap bubble, bright and colorful while it lasted but gone at a single jab Leaning against the window screen he gazed outside The stars filling the~ sky were dense and busyThey remained completely still, yet watching them made him think the sky was bustling noisilyThe crescent moon seemingly resembled a girl that is not yet full-grown but already able to face the world unabashedIts light and contours were fresh and sharp, gradually standing out against the night settingThe tiny insects in the garden grass hummed and buzzed, engaged in a nocturnal conversationFrom somewhere a pack of frogs croaked hoarsely, their mouths, lips, throats, and tongues working in unison as though the sound waves were being stewed over a fire until they 32 bubbled: "Brekekey Coky Coky," like the chorus in Aristophanes' comedies, or of Yale University's cheerleadersA few fireflies gracefully passed to and fro, not as if flying but as though floating in the dense atmosphereA dark area beyond the reach of moonlight was suddenly lit up by a firefly's speck of light, like a tiny greenish eye in the summer night This was the scene familiar to him before going abroad; but now when he saw it, his heart suddenly con tracted in pain, his eyes smarted on the verge of tears, and then he understood life's beauty and goodness and the joy of coming homeSuch things as the item in the Shanghai newspaper were no more worth troubling over than the hum of insects outside the screenHe sighed comfortably, then yawned broadly When he stepped off the train at his home district station, his father, his youngest brother Feng-i, as well as seven or eight uncles, cousins, and friends of his father were all there on the platform to meet him He was quite dis mayed, and greeting each in turn said, "On such a hot day as this, I've really imposed on you too much And observing how his father's beard had grayed, he said, "Papa, you shouldn't have come!" His father, Fang Tung-weng, handed him his folding fan, saying, "You people in Western suits won't need this antique, but it's better than fanning yourself with a straw hat When he saw his son had traveled second class, he praised him"Such a fine lad! He came back on the boat in second class, so I thought for sure he'd go first class on the train, but still he went second classHe hasn't become haughty and proud and changed his true natureHe already knows how to conduct himself Everyone echoed his praise They had jostled their way out of the ticket gate when suddenly a man wearing blue glasses and a Western suit caught hold of Fang Hung-chien and said, "Hold it, please! We're taking a shop picture