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:loo loo. 329
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chairs , tables , and French , bedstead were all ornamented with roses The and lilies tent-like gracefull canopy y intertwined that muslin partiall on y veiled a delicate the either couch fawn side - , colored was in formed ground le folds of .
pink and white striped , draped on amp broidered and fastened , perfumed with garlands , and edged of with roses . frills The quilled pillow as -cases neatl were y as em the - decorated
petals with a of very a dahlia elegant . face In Parisian of one corner tea-service stood a for mirror small two . and table Lamp , the s of toilet cut
before glass illumined it a diamond the necklace a large and ear Psyche -rings sparkled , in their on crimson velvet case . Loo Loo looked at them with a half scornful smile ,
and repeated to herself : — Since with me ci came He boug a heart ht me he somewhat couldn't buy high . "
She lowered the lamps to twilight softness , and tried to -wait with patience midniht . . How What long if Aunt the D hours ebb seemed had been ! Surel detected y it in must her be p past lot ? y
What g if the master should come in her stead ? Full of that fear side she tried Her to heart open the sank windows within , her and for found she them had fastened resolved , on in the the out last
-. , became emergency almost , to leap intolerable out and . be She crushed listened on and the pavement listened . . There Suspense was it her
no tyrant sound who excep was t sleep a loud ing snoring so near in ? the She next sat apartment with her . and shoes Was Debb in her
hand , her eyes fastened on the door . At last it opened , y ' s taking brown face the precaution peeped in . to They lock the passed door out and together put the , —the key mulatto in her
the pocket adj . oinin Softly alley they went Two down gentlem stairs en , with throug a carriage h the kitchen were in , out attend into
miles ance . the They carriage g sprang . was in and stopped were whirled ; one of away the . gentlemen After riding alig some hted
and handed the women out . " Mname is Dinsmore" he said . " I am uncle to your friend ,
Frank y Helper . You are to , pass for my daughter , and Debby is our servant "
¦ " And . Alfred , —Mr . Noble , I mean , —where is he ? " asked Loo Loo
_" . He will follow in good time . Ask no more questions now . _" The carriage rolled away ; and the party it had conveyed were
soon It would on their be way impossible to the North to describe by an the express anxiety -train Alfred . had endured cottonbroker
from the time Loo Loo became the property of the - until he heard of her escape . From motives of policy he was kept
intended in ignorance to take of . the In persons this state emp of loyed susp , ense and , his of the reason measures might have they ht
been sages endangered from time , to had time not , Madame assuring Labasse him that broug all was cheering carefully mes ar-
ranged and success nearly certain .
:Loo Loo. 329
: loo loo . 329
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 329, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/41/
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