"So you exulted at recognizing a fellow-slave in one so fair and imperial?"
"I did; Robert, you say right, in one so fair and imperial."
"You confess it--a _fellow_-slave?"
"I confess nothing; but I say that haughty Shirley is no more free than was Hagar."
"And who, pray, is the Abraham, the hero of a patriarch who has achieved such a conquest?"
"You still speak scornfully, and cynically, and sorely; but I will make you change your note before I have done with you."
"We will see that. Can she marry this Cupidon?"
"Cupidon! he is just about as much a Cupidon as you are a Cyclops."

"And who, pray, is the hero who has achieved such a conquest?"
"You still speak cynically; but I will make you change your note before I have done."
"We will see. 