Zeluco Various Views of Human Nature Author:John Moore Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: sipated; and when he was able. to weigh circumstances, he abstained from suggesting any suspicion against particular persons, or from making any investigation of... more » the subject. CHAPTER XVIII. " Ye who one bitter drop have drain'd' From slav'ry's cup, with horror stain'd; Oh, let no fatal dregs be found, But dash her chalice to the ground." HELEtt MARIA WILLIAMS. For a considerable time after Zelueo was out of danger from his wound, and even after he began to walk abroad, and resume the management of his affairs, he appeared more pensive than formerly; and although his thoughts seemed of a gloomy nature, yet he did not burst out into those violent fits of rage that had been customary with him before that accident. But the impression which it made on his mind gradually diminished, and the sentiments of dread and remorse, which influenced his conduct for a time, wearing quite away, his former dispositions returned with his bodily health. One day as he was walking around his estate with the physician already mentioned, who had called upon him on his return from visiting a patient, Ze- luco gave pretty strong indications of a relapse into his former cruelty. The physician, who was a man of sense and humanity, checked him, and expressed sentiments of compassion for the deplorable condition of the poor slaves. They are, said Zeluco, the most villainous race alive. They certainly are the most unfortunate, said the physician. VOL. XXXIV. H Let them perform their task as they ought, replied the other, and they will not be unfortunate. Why, it is not a slight misfortune, said the doctor, to have such tasks to perform. They are in a better situation than when they were in their own country. That would be difficult to prove, said the physician ; but were it c...« less