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which militated strongly against this emphatic declaration of his state of mind.
    »Lord love you, sir,« he added, »they're so fond of Liberty in this part of
the globe, that they buy her and sell her and carry her to market with 'em.
They've such a passion for Liberty, that they can't help taking liberties with
her. That's what it's owing to.«
    »Very well,« said Martin, wishing to change the theme. »Having come to that
conclusion, Mark, perhaps you'll attend to me. The place to which the luggage is
to go, is printed on this card. Mrs. Pawkins's Boarding House.«
    »Mrs. Pawkins's boarding-house,« repeated Mark, »Now, Cicero.«
    »Is that his name?« asked Martin.
    »That's his name, sir,« rejoined Mark. And the negro grinning assent from
under a leathern portmanteau, than which his own face was many shades deeper,
hobbled down stairs with his portion of their worldly goods: Mark Tapley having
already gone before with his share.
    Martin and his friend followed them to the door below, and were about to
pursue their walk, when the latter stopped, and asked, with some hesitation,
whether that young man was to be trusted?
    »Mark! Oh certainly! with anything.«
    »You don't understand me. I think he had better go with us. He is an honest
fellow, and speaks his mind so very plainly.«
    »Why, the fact is,« said Martin, smiling, »that being unaccustomed to a free
republic, he is used to do so.«
    »I think he had better go with us,« returned the other. »He may get into
some trouble otherwise. This is not a slave State; but I am ashamed to say that
a spirit of Tolerance is not so common anywhere in these latitudes as the form.
We are not remarkable for behaving very temperately to each other when we
differ: but to strangers! - No, I really think he had better go with us.«
    Martin called to him immediately to be of their party; so Cicero and the
truck went one way, and they three went another.
    They walked about the city for two or three hours; seeing it from the best
points of view, and pausing in the principal streets, and before such public
buildings as Mr. Bevan pointed out. Night then coming on apace, Martin proposed
