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Is it for the First Consul's lady? They say she is the most elegant lady in the world though she is a Creole, like you, my darling. Is your pretty handkerchief for her?" "No, grandpapa. I dare say she has all the ladies in France to work for her. I should like, if you have no objection, to send this to Madame L'Ouverture!" "To Madame L'Ouverture. Why?
L'Ouverture deceives no one. As you say, he reveres the whites. He reveres them for their knowledge. He says they are masters of an intellectual kingdom from which we have been shut out, and they alone can let us in. And then again. Genifrede, it seems to me that he loves best those who have most injured him." "Not best," she replied.
"You would hardly think," said the Cuban, "that, a hundred years ago, a stone-built road, as straight as an arrow, ran from Cap Haitien to Millot, and that over it, Toussaint l'Ouverture, 'the Black Napoleon, was wont to ride at breakneck speed, and Christophe, 'the black Emperor, drove his gaudy carriage with much pomp and display."
They were so prejudiced against all the mulattoes, and put so little trust in L'Ouverture himself as indeed their going off in such a hurry with Hedouville proves that I should not have cared for their opinion to-night. Suppose you step to the convent, Pierre, and ask whether the lady abbess could see me for half-an-hour on business.
"This document is signed, you will perceive," said Monsieur Coasson, "by the First Consul, and by the Secretary of State, Monsieur H.B. Maret." Once more it was in vain to explore the countenance of L'Ouverture. It was still immovable.
Moyse gazed at him in astonishment, and then cast himself at his uncle's feet, clinging to his knees, and crying "Save me! uncle, save me! You can you will " "No, Moyse, I will not I cannot," declared Toussaint, in a voice which silenced even that most piercing of all sounds the cry for life. "Not one word!" continued L'Ouverture. "Keep your entreaties for Him who alone can help you.
She was abashed, and turned away, when she saw her father behind her, in the shade of the wood. Monsieur Pascal, his secretary, was with him. "My father!" "L'Ouverture!" exclaimed one after another of the party; for they all supposed he had been far away. Even Denis at once gave over pelting the monkeys, and left them to their study of the arts in peace.
Toussaint's eyes, like every one's else, turned to the ladies of his family. It was not Madame L'Ouverture that was intended, for her countenance asked of her husband what this could mean. It could not be Aimee, who now stood drowned in tears, where she could best conceal her grief. Genifrede explained.
"I would not be rash, Euphrosyne replied; but we know now how these people came into the morne, and L'Ouverture will guard the pass. And remember, Afra, we have beaten them; and they will take care how they attack us another time. Remember, we have beaten them." "We have beaten them," said Dessalines, laughing. "And what did you do to beat off the French, my little lady?"
If, as usual, L'Ouverture had to report the situation of Cap Francais as precarious, he brought good tidings of the South. An express had met him on his journey homewards, with news of the total defeat of the insurgent mulattoes by Vincent. Rigaud had surrendered his designs, and had actually sailed, with his principal officers, for France.
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