` Yes , sir . ' ` Was your master unkind to you ? ' ` No , sir . ' ` Was your mistress unkind to you ? ' ` No , sir -- no . My mistress was always good to me . ' ` What could make you leave a good home , then , and run away , and go through such danger ? ' ` They wanted to take my boy away from me -- to sell him -- to sell him down south , ma'am . To go all alone -- a baby that had never been away from his mother in his life . I could n't bear it . I took him , and ran away in the night . They chased me , they were coming down close behind me , and I heard 'em . I jumped right on to the ice . How I got across I do n't know . The first I knew , a man was helping me up the bank . ' It was such a sad story , that the tears came into the eyes of everyone who heard her tell it . -LSB- Illustration -RSB- ` Where do you mean to go to , poor woman ? ' asked the lady . ` To Canada , if I only knew where that was . Is it very far off , is Canada ' ?
said Eliza , looking up in a simple , trusting way , XXXXX the kind lady 's face .
across behind from if in into of that through to