Legree Quotes

“And now,” said Legree, “come here, you Tom. You see, I telled ye I didn’t buy ye jest for the common work; I mean to promote ye, and make a driver of ye; and tonight ye may jest as well begin to get yer hand in. Now, ye jest take this yer gal and flog her; ye’ve seen enough on’t to know how.”

“His heart inly relented,—there was a conflict,—but sin got the victory, and he set all the force of his rough nature against the conviction of his conscience.”

“Mas’r,” said Tom, “I know ye can do dreadful things; but,“—he stretched himself upward and clasped his hands,—“but, after ye’ve killed the body, there an’ t no more ye can do. And O, there’s all ETERNITY to come, after that!”

“ETERNITY,—the word thrilled through the black man’s soul with light and power, as he spoke; it thrilled through the sinner’s soul, too, like the bite of a scorpion.”

“Do the worst you can, my troubles’ll be over soon; but, if ye don’t repent, yours won’t never end!”