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332 loo loo.
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They were living * thus contented with their humble lot , when a letter from Frank Helper announced that the extensive house of
• Grossman and Company had stopped payment . Their human chattels had been put up at auction , and among * them was the title to our
beautiful fugitive . The . chance of capture was considered so hopeless , that when Mr . Helper bid sixty-two dollars no one bid over
him , and she became his property until there was time to transfer the Feeling legal claim 1 that to they his friend could . now be safe under their own vine and
fig-tree , Alfred returned to the United States , where he became organization first a clerk unfitted and afterward him for a prosperous conflictand merchant _j though . his His peculiar natural
, experiences had imbued him with a thorough abhorrence of slavery , he stood aloof from the ever-increasing" agitation on that subject ;
but every New Year ' s day , one of the Vigilance Committees for the relief of fugitive slaves received one hundred dollars " from an
unknown friend . " As his pecuniary means increased , he purchased several slaves , who had been in his employ " at Mobile , and
established them as servants in Northern hotels . Madame Labasse was invited to spend the remainder of her days under his roofbut she
came only in the summers , being unable to conquer her , shivering dread of snow-storms .
Loo Loo ' s personal charms attracted attention wherever she made her appearance . At church , and other public places , people pointed
her out to strangers , saying , " _ThatJs the wife of Mr . Alfred Noble . She was the orphan daughter of a rich planter at the Southand
had a great inheritance left to her ; but Mr . Noble lost it all in , the financial crisis of 1837 . " Her real history remained a secret
locked est was within named their Loo Loo own , and breasts greatl . y Of resembled their three her children beautiful , the mother young . - ,
When she was six years old , her portrait was taken in a gipsy hat garlanded with red berries . She was dancing round a little white
dog , and long streamers of ribbon were floating behind her . Her father had it framed in an arched environment of vine-workand
presented it to his wife on her thirtieth birth-day . Her , eyes moistened as she gazed upon it ; then kissing his hand , she looked
up in the old way , and said , " I thank you , sir , for buying me . "
332 Loo Loo.
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 332, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/44/
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