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There is shipping enough for more than will wish to go." Euphrosyne glanced apprehensively at her grandfather, and then said, "Grandpapa is too old to go upon the sea any more; and I am not afraid of anything here. I do not believe there is anything to be afraid of here; is there?" "Indeed, I believe not." "Besides," said Afra, "my father will not allow any harm to happen to his best friends.
We are willing to follow my lord to the death if need be, for the sake of the love and honour we bear him." Heliobas looked at him very kindly. "I am richer in friends than I thought myself to be," he said quietly. "Stay then, by all means, Afra, you and your companions, since you have desired it.
"I was surprised that you should have seen any one yet; and I was going to give you a lecture about half-confidences with Father Gabriel." "And I could not conceive what Father Gabriel had to do with Afra's affairs, or how you came to know anything about it. I have let it out now, however; and I do not know what Afra will say."
When Toussaint came forth from his conference with Raymond, Afra and Euphrosyne were awaiting him in the corridor. He would have passed them with a smile; but he saw that Afra was urging Euphrosyne to speak, and that the blushing Euphrosyne dared not do so.
When she could no longer hear his complaints, but was standing beckoning to him from the grass-plat below, he gave up all resistance, was let down with perfect ease, and carried in the chair, followed by all the white members of his household, through the gardens, and up the alley where Afra was awaiting them.
There they told their wonderful tale to their families, turning the desolation of wives and children into joy almost too great to be believed. Afra found, to her satisfaction, that no one had entered to tell Euphrosyne of this act of L'Ouverture. Euphrosyne had been full of perplexity about the mulattoes almost disposed to think that the whole race must have suddenly gone mad.
He knew he should die before they had been a week at sea; but he would not stay to see everything turned topsy-turvy by the blacks. Afra gently said that she understood it was Hedouville who had endeavoured to turn everything topsy-turvy, and those who understood the affairs of the colony better, who hoped to keep them straight.
"Very much of a lottery," Afra replied grimly "like all the ways of Bohemia, remarkably uncertain. You get a ticket for something in the giving of the Muses, and you wait until your number is called. The worst of it is, the most unlikely people are called before you, and some get disgusted and leave: there goes one out at the door at this moment.
This idea of seeing Afra gained strength under all the circumstances of her present life.
After exchanging some cabalistic sentences with a toothless old woman, the proprietor of the candle, Afra turned to the right, and walking a few steps came to a door opening on a stairway, which we mounted. I can think of nothing black enough for comparison with the darkness surrounding us. At last a faint glimmer showed an old lamp standing in a corner of a hall bare and carpetless.
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