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Then let your idylic ideas live, your dreams of a slave who asks only for a bandage to wrap the chain so that it may rattle less and not ulcerate his skin! You hope for a little home and some ease, a wife and a handful of rice here is your ideal man of the Philippines! Well, if they give it to you, consider yourself fortunate."
It was in the vicinity of a chain of lakes, and on the bank of the loveliest little stream, called the Bark river, which flowed in rapid amber brightness, through fields, and dells, and stately knolls, of most idylic beauty. The little log cabin where we slept, with its flower garden in front, disturbed the scene no more than a stray lock on the fair cheek.
A brief five years of idylic happiness the pair had spent together happiness in spite of much work and some tears; then David Poe had succumbed to consumption, leaving a penniless widow with three children to support. The eldest, a boy, was adopted by his father's relatives in Baltimore.
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