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George was heartily disposed to sympathize with any one who had escaped from Legree’s plantation,- a place that he could not remember or speak of with pa- tience,- and, with the courageous disregard of consequences which is charac- teristic of his age and state, he assured her that he would do all in his power to protect and bring them through. The next stateroom to Cassy’s was occupied by a French lady, named De Thoux, who was accompanied by a fine little daughter, a child of some twelve summers. This lady, having gathered, from George’s conversation, that he was from Kentucky, seemed evidently disposed to cultivate his acquaintance; in which de- sign she was seconded by the graces of her little girl, who was about as pretty a plaything as ever diverted the weariness of a fortnight’s trip on a steamboat. George’s chair was often placed at her stateroom door; and Cassy, as she sat upon the guards, could hear their conversation. Madame de Thoux was very minute in her inquiries as to Kentucky, where she said she had resided in a former period of her life. George discovered, to his surprise, that her former residence must have been in his own vicinity; and her in- quiries showed a knowledge of people and things in his region, that was perfectly surprising to him. “Do you know,” said Madame de Thoux to him, one day, “of any man, in your neighborhood, of the name of Harris?” |
