countenance flushed in passion; “you can see, if you cannot read; look ye upon the words of that paper (here he traced the lines with the forefinger of his right hand as he stood over the wretched miscreant) and tell me if it be honourable to spare the life of one who would commit so foul a deed.  On the night you consummated my shame, forced me to relieve you by procuring my uncle’s signature to a document not then filled up, or made complete, how little did I conjecture the germs of villainy so deep in your heart as to betray the confidence I reposed in you.  You, in your avarice, changed the tenor of that instrument, made the amount more than double that which I had injudiciously become indebted to you, and transcribed it in the instrument, in legal phraseology, which you made a death-warrant to my nearest and dearest relatives.  Read it, miscreant! read it!  Read on it sixty-two thousand dollars, the cause of your anxiety to hurry me out of the city into a foreign land.  I returned to seek a sister, to relieve my uncle, to live an honourable man on that home so dear in my boyhood, so bright of that which was pleasant in the past, to make glad the hearts of my aged parents, and to receive the sweet forgiveness of those who honoured me when fortune smiled; but you have left me none of these boons-nay, you would have me again wander an outcast upon the world!” And now, as the miscreant fell tremblingly on his knees, and beseeching that mercy which he had denied so many, Lorenzo’s frenzy surmounted all his resolution.  With agitated hand he seized his revolver, saying, “I will go hence stained with a miscreant’s blood.”  Another moment, and the loud shriek of the man-seller echoed forth, the sharp report of a pistol rung ominously through the mansion; and quivering to the ground fell dead a wretch who had tortured ten thousand souls, as Lorenzo disappeared and was seen no more.  The Project Gutenberg Etext of Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter by F. Colburn Adams ******This file should be named owtsd10.txt or owtsd10.zip******

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