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254 loo loo.
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• his were proceedings marketable , in a and society he had where so handsome long tacitl girls y acquiesced of such parentage in the ;
li ht tom himself s around had him she , that not , become he might invested easily have _"with a viewed tender her and in sacred thai
interest g from , the circumstances in which he had first seen her , and supp the innocent ly the p , lace confiding of her manner father . in She which was she always had imp presented lored h to his to
imag son _' s ination slave- as He Mr said . Duncan to himself ' s "beloved , " May daug God hter Mess , never me as according Mr . Jack , to
my dealings with this orphan ! May I never prosper , if I take adr vantage of her friendless situation ! " the world to be
disturbed As for b his y any protegee such , thoug she hts was . too " May ignorant I call you of Papa , as I used
to For call my some father reason ? " , said undefined she . if to his himself sixteen , the title of was seniorit unpleasan need t to himIt did not seem as years y
lace so . wide a distance between them . " Ko , " he replied , " you p shall be my sister . " And thenceforth , she called him Brother Alfred ,
and His he curiosit called her was Loo naturall Loo . excited to learn all he coxild of her y
history was a superbl ; and y it y handsome was not long quadroon before iven , he from her ascertained New Orleans that , the her daug mother of edu hter
of cation a French but from merchant carelessness , who had had g left her to many follow advantages the condition of - her mother , who was a slave . Mr . Duncan fell in love with her ,
fatal from her boug death ht fever inveterate her . , , attacked and It had habits remained always them of strong procrastination been both his ly and attached intention so , his he to child to deferred her manumit until also it was the , her till day left , but the to of , ;
' " follow the condition of her mother . " Having neglected to make at a will a distance , his propert , from y him was , and divided thus among the little the of daug sons Jackson hter of sisters , whom who married he valued had
her so fondl as he y cherished would a handsome , became the colt property likely to bring Mr . a high , price in the marketShe was too to understand all the degradation to
• of whi slaves ch , she . and would the be idea subjected young of being , but sold she filled had her once with witnessed terror . an She auction had
endured , six months of corroding homesickness and constant fear , when MrNoble came to her rescue .
laced After with a . few an weeks elderl passed French with widow the colore who d was washerwoman lad to eke , she out was her g
p small income by taking y motherly care of her , and giving her instruction in music and French . The caste to which she belonged schoolstherefore
it on was the not mother ' s to side obtain was ri for gorousl her a y good excluded education from in the , English branches . easy These Alfred took upon himself ; and a large portion of harith
metic his evenings _^ and history was devoted . Had to any hearing one told her him lessons , a year in before geograp , that y , houm -
254 Loo Loo.
254 loo loo .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 254, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/38/
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