planter?"

"For five days and five nights he watched and tended him as if he had
been his father, counteracting the disease, step by step, with great
skill and perfect knowledge, until, at last, he succeeded in defeating
it, to the extreme surprise of the doctor who had been sent for, and who
did not arrive until the second day."

"And, when restored to health at last, the colonist--"

"Not desiring to blush before his own slave, whose presence constantly
oppressed him with the recollection of his excessive nobleness of
conduct, the colonist made an enormous sacrifice to attach the doctor he
had sent for to his establishment, and David was again conducted to his
dungeon."

"Horrible, but by no means astonishing. David must have been in the eyes
of his brutal master a complete living remorse."

"Such conduct was dictated alike by revenge and jealousy. The blacks of
Mr. Willis loved David with all the warmth of gratitude, for he had
saved them body and soul. They knew the care he had bestowed on him when
he lay tossing with fever between life and death, and, shaking off the
deadening apathy which ordinarily besets slavery, these unfortunate
creatures evinced their indignation, or rather grief, most powerfully
when they saw David lacerated by the whip. Mr. Willis, deeply
exasperated, affected to discover in this manifestation the appearance
of revolt, and, when he considered the influence which David had
acquired over the slaves, he believed him capable of placing himself at
the head of a rebellion to avenge himself of his wrongs. This fear was
another motive with the colonist for using David in the most shameful
manner, and entirely preventing him from effecting the malicious designs
of which he suspected him."

"Considering him as actuated by an irrepressible amount of terror, this
conduct seems less stupid, but quite as ferocious."

"A short time after these events we arrived in America. Monseigneur had
freighted a Danish brig at St. Thomas's, and we visited incognito all
the settlements of the American coast along which we were sailing. We
were most hospitably received by Mr. Willis, who, the evening after our
arrival, after he had been drinking, and as much from the excitement of
wine as from a desire to boast, told us, in a horrid tone of brutal
jesting, the history of David and Cecily. I forgot to say that, after
having maltreated the girl, he had thrown her into a dungeon also, as a
punishment for her disd