Without big farms to run, the people in the North did not rely on slave labor very much. In the South, the economy was based on agriculture. ... The North wanted the new states to be “free states.” Most northerners thought that slavery was wrong and many northern states had outlawed slavery.
"Oh, my poor Mathilde! Why, my necklace was paste! It was worth at most only five hundred francs!"
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The excerpt compares the tree to a person, which makes readers feel sympathetic toward the tree.
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