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the ihougnt period tlie of Lest his he departure could do for under the tlie North circumstances , the to marry was Loo where to Loo hasten her in
Philadelphia , and remove to some part of country private To make history would for remain this unknown he had . more and more extended purpose
. money his speculations , and they had uniformly proved profitable . If Mr . Grossman ' s offensive conduct had not forced upon him a painful
consciousness of his position with regard to the object of his devoted affectionhe would have liked to remain in Mobile a few years
, longer and accumulate more , but as it was , he determined to remove as soon as he could his affairs satisfactorily . He
set about this in good earnest arrange . But , alas ! the great pecuniary crash of 1837 was at hand . By every mail came news of failures
where he expected payments . The wealth , which seemed so certain a few months beforewhere had it vanished ? It had floated away
, like , a prismatic bubble on the breeze . He saw that his ruin was Inevitable . All that he owned in the world would not cancel his
debts . And now he recalled the horrible recollection that Loo Loo was a part of his property . Much as he had blamed Mr . Duncan
for the neg same ligence snare . in not In the manumitting fulness of his her prosperit mother , y he and had happ fallen iness into , he
did not comprehend the risk he was running by delay . He rarely occur thought to him of the , it fact was that always she was accompanied legally his with slave the ; recollection and when it that did
the laws of Alabama did not allow him to emancipate her without because sending there her away was always from the present State with . But him this that vision never of troubled going to him the ,
North and making her his wife . So time slipped away without his taking any precautions on the subject , and now it was too late .
Immersed , in debt as he was , the law did not allow him to dispose sand of any dollars thing to without Mr . Grossman consent . of Oh creditors agony ; ! and sharp he agony owed ! ten
thou-There was a meeting of the creditors , . Mr . Noble rendered an account of all his property , in which he was compelled to include
Loo Loo ; but for her he offered to give a note for fifteen hundred dollarswith good endorsementpayable with interest in a year .
It was , known that his attachment , to the orphan he had educated amounted almost to infatuation ; and his proverbial integrity
terests grant inspired him so They any much agreed indul respect gence to , not that t the incompatible the proffered creditors with note wer , e their all disposed except own Mr in to - .
Grossman . . He insisted that accep the girl should be put up at auction . For her sake the ruined merchant condescended to plead with him *
He represented that the tie between them was very different from the merelconvenient connections which were so common ; that Loo
Loo was reall y y good and modest , and so sensitive by nature , that to public sale would nearly kill her . The selfish creditor
exposure remained inexorable . The very fact that this delicate _nowei _* had
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 321, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/33/
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