“Hold me!
I’m so
frightened!”
feigned to
be in a
paroxysm
of terror
and
contrition,
occasioned
by the
dignity of
my
appearance.
As I
passed
him, his
teeth
loudly
chattered
in his
head, and
with every
mark of
extreme
humiliation,
he
prostrated
himself in
the dust.
This was a
hard thing
to bear,
but this
was
nothing. I
had not
advanced
another
two
hundred
yards
when, to
my
inexpressible
terror,
amazement,
and
indignation,
I again
