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 purpose for him. Perhaps, sometime, pappy will go again the long march to the white folks' land, and get your little sister for me."

Fox Heart laughed at what he considered a bright idea of his own, but Nattie felt her heart quiver with pain, and she thought it better for Tiny to die than be reserved for a fate like hers. She was very weary of suffering from the effects of sin, while she had no real sorrow for the sins themselves. There was no true repentance in her case, and if restored to her friends, in her present state of mind, she would, probably, relapse into her former habits, and be the same imperious, willful, bad girl as ever. God knew best when to withdraw the chastening hand, and the time was not yet.