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dren, and went up to her father’s plantation. I thought they treated me strangely, but didn’t know. There was a young lawyer who they left to settle the business; and he came every day, and was about the house, and spoke very politely to me. He brought with him, one day, a young man, whom I thought the handsomest I had ever seen. I shall never forget that evening. I walked with him in the garden. I was lonesome and full of sorrow, and he was so kind and gentle to me; and he told me that he had seen me before I went to the convent, and that he had loved me a great while, and that he would be my friend and protector;- in short, though he didn’t tell me, he had paid two thousand dollars for me, and I was his property,- I became his willingly, for I loved him. Loved!” said the woman, stopping, “O, how I did love that man! How I love him now,- and always shall, while I breathe! He was so beautiful, so high, so no- ble! He put me into a beautiful house, with servants, horses, and carriages, and furniture, and dresses. Everything that money could buy, he gave me; but I didn’t set any value on all that,- I only cared for him. I loved him better than my God and my own soul; and if I tried, I couldn’t do any other way from what he wanted me to. “I wanted only one thing. I did want him to marry me. I thought, if he loved me as he said he did, and if I was what he seemed to think I was, he would be willing to marry me and set me free. But he convinced me that it would be impos- sible; and he told me that, if we were only faithful to each other, it was marriage before God. If that is true, wasn’t I that man’s wife? Wasn’t I faithful? For seven |
