He was a short, thick-set man, with coarse, commonplace features, and that swaggering air of pretension which marks a low man who is trying to elbow his way upward in the world. - P10
For convenience sake, we have said, hitherto, two gentlemen. One of the parties, however, when critically examined, did not seem, strictly speaking, to come under the species. - P9
There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching, seemed to be discussing some subject with great earnestness. - P9
VOLUME ICHAPTER IIn Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of HumanityLate in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P------, in Kentucky. - P9
■ 저자 소개 해리엇 비처 스토(Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811년 6월 14일 ~1896년 7월 1일)는 미국의 노예해방론자이자 사실주의 작가입니다. 스토 부인이라고도 부릅니다. 소설 《톰 아저씨의 오두막》은 노예 제도를 둘러싼 남부와 북부의 의견 대립을 심화시켰습니다. - P3