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246 i-oo loo.
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Scene I.
" He said the little girl was Ms _daughter , and I naturally inferred that lie had a wife" replied Alfred .
, " That don't follow of course , my gosling , " said the cotton-broker . " You're green , young man ! You ' re green ! I swear , I'd give a
good deal to get sight of Duncan ' s wench . She must be devilish handsome , or he wouldn't keep her so close . "
Alfred Noble had always felt an instinctive antipathy to this man , who was often letting fall some remark that jarred harshly with his
romantic ideas of women , —something that seemed to insult the memories of a beloved mother and sister gone to the spirit-world .
But he had never liked him less than at this moment ; for the sly wink of his eyeand the expressive leer that accompanied his coarse
, charming words , were 1 vision very of disagreeable the circling doves things and to the be innocent associated child with . that
SCENE IT . Time passed awayand with it the average share of changing *
, events . Alfred Noble became junior partner in the counting-house he had entered as clerk , and not long afterward the elder partner
died . Left thus to rely upon his own energy and enterprise , the young man gradually extended his business , and seemed in a fair
way to realise his favorite dream of making a fortune and returning ' to the North to marry . The subject of Slavery was then seldom
discussed . North and South seemed to have entered into a tacit agreement to ignore the topic completely . Alfred's experience was
like that of most New Englanders in his situation . He was at first annoyed and pained by many of the peculiarities of Southern
society , and then became gradually accustomed to them . But his natural sense of justice was very strong ; and this , added to the
influence of early education , and strengthened by scenes of petty despotism which he was frequently compelled to witness , led him to
resolve that he would never hold a slave . The colored people in his employ considered him their friend , because he was always kind
and generous to them . He supposed that comprised the whole of duty , and further than that he never reflected upon the subject .
The pretty little picture at Pine Grove , which had made so lively an impression on his imagination , faded the more rapidly , because
unconnected with his affections . But a shadowy semblance of it always flitted through his memory , whenever he saw a beautiful
child , or observed any unusual combination of trees and vines . Four years after his interview with Mr . Duncan , business called
him to the interior of the State , and for the sake of healthy exercise he chose to make the journey on horseback . His route lay mostly
through a monotonous region of sandy plain , covered with pines , here and there varied by patches of cleared land , in which numerous
dead trees were prostrate , or standing leafless , waiting their time to
whit fall . e v Most illa of so me we dw a ellings lthy planter were log mig -houses l _^ t be seen , but g now leaming and then throug the h
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 246, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/30/
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