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When all goes well, as all has done, under L'Ouverture's rule, with only a few occasional troubles fewer and slighter than might have been expected during such a change in society as we have witnessed when all goes well, Madame Oge feels that her sons are forgotten; and, as my daughter Benoite says, she mourns them alone in the shades of her coffee-groves.
"It is but seldom that she does," said the abbess, "and it is our part to make her welcome." "But seldom, indeed, reverend mother. When all goes well when the crops are fine, and the island all at peace, no one hears of Madame Oge. She keeps within her coffee-groves " "Mourning her sons," interposed the abbess.
To the east and north spread the Cul-de-Sac a plain of unequalled richness, extending to the foot of the mountains, fifteen miles into the interior. The sun had not yet risen so high but that these mountains cast a deep shadow for some distance into the plain, while their skirts were dark with coffee-groves, and their summits were strongly marked against the glowing sky.
The globe of green light floated on till it burst above the mountains, illuminating the lower clouds, and revealing along the slopes of the uplands the coffee-groves, waving and bowing their heads in the wandering winds of that high region. Genifrede shivered at the sight, and her brother threw himself upon her lap.
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