big town and an active market we should have
brought a good price; but this place was utterly
stagnant and so we sold at a figure which makes me
ashamed, every time I think of it. The King of
England brought seven dollars, and his prime min-
ister nine; whereas the king was easily worth twelve
dollars and I as easily worth fifteen. But that is the
way things always go; if you force a sale on a dull
market, I don't care what the property is, you are
going to make a poor business of it, and you can
make up your mind to it. If the earl had had wit
enough to--

However, there is no occasion for my working
my sympathies up on his account. Let him go, for
the present; I took his number, so to speak.

The slave-dealer bought us both, and hitched us
onto that long chain of his, and we constituted the
rear of his procession. We took up our line of
march and passed out of Cambenet at noon; and it
seemed to me unaccountably strange and odd that
the King of England and his chief minister, march-
ing manacled and fettered and yoked, in a slave
convoy, could move by all manner of idle men and
women, and under windows where sat the sweet and
the lovely, and yet never attract a curious eye, never
provoke a single remark. Dear, dear, it only shows
that there is nothing diviner about a king than there
is about a tramp, after all. He is just a cheap and
hollow artificiality when you don't know he is a
king. But reveal his quality, and dear me it takes
your very breath away to look at him. I reckon we
are all fools. Born so, no doubt.

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