He was stingy, and she was cruel; and—what was quite natural in such cases—she possessed the ability to make him as cruel as herself, while she could easily descend to the level of his meanness.
Douglass describes the cruel and stingy nature of his new master and mistress, observing how their vices reinforced each other.
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