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vans old skool.She had often been with her mistress to visit some connections in the little village of T---- not far from the Ohio river and knew the road well. To go thither to escape across the Ohio river were the first hurried outlines of her plan of escape; beyond that she could only hope in God.When horses and vehicles began to move along the highway with that alert perception peculiar to a state of excitement and which seems to be a sort of inspiration she became aware that her headlong pace and distracted air might bring on her remark and suspicion. She therefore put the boy on the ground and adjusting her dress and bonnet she walked on at as rapid a pace as she thought consistent with the preservation of appearances. In her little bundle she had provided a store of cakes and apples which she used as expedients for quickening the speed of the child rolling the apple some yards before them when the boy would run with all his might after it; and this ruse often repeated carried them over many a half-mile,
discount vans shoes.After a while they came to a thick patch of woodland through which murmured a clear brook. As the child complained of hunger and thirst she climbed over the fence with him; and sitting down behind a large rock which concealed them from the road she gave him a breakfast out of her little package. The boy wondered and grieved that she could not eat; and when putting his arms round her neck he tried to wedge some of his cake into her mouth it seemed to her that the rising in her throat would choke her."No no Harry darling! mother can't eat till you are safe! We must go on--on--till we come to the river!" And she hurried again into the road and again constrained herself to walk regularly and composedly forward,
vans shoes on sale.She was many miles past any neighborhood where she was personally known. If she should chance to meet any who knew her she reflected that the well-known kindness of the family would be of itself a blind to suspicion as making it an unlikely supposition that she could be a fugitive. As she was also so white as not to be known as of colored lineage without a critical survey and her child was white also it was much easier for her to pass on unsuspected.On this presumption she stopped at noon at a neat farmhouse to rest herself and buy some dinner for her child and self; for as the danger decreased with the distance the supernatural tension of the nervous system lessened and she found herself both weary and hungry.The good woman kindly and gossipping seemed rather pleased than otherwise with having somebody come in to talk with; and accepted without examination Eliza's statement that she "was going on a little piece to spend a week with her friends"--all which she hoped in her heart might prove strictly true.An hour before sunset she entered the village of T---- by the Ohio river weary and foot-sore but still strong in heart. Her first glance was at the river which lay like Jordan between her and the Canaan of liberty on the other side,
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