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"Madame," she cried, gasping for breath, "do you hear that? Do you know what it is? They have shot General Moyse! Father Gabriel says so. Oh no, no! L'Ouverture never would do anything so cruel." Sister Claire looked at the abbess. "My daughter," said the abbess, "L'Ouverture's duty is to execute justice." "Oh, Genifrede! Poor, poor Genifrede! She will die too. I hope she is dead."
Yet, that is Hedouville, who has his eye and his smiles at play in one place, while his heart and hands are busy in another." "Busy," said Genifrede, "in undermining L'Ouverture's influence, and counteracting his plans; but no one mentioned Ailbaud. Ailbaud " "Stay a moment," said Azua, whose voice had not been heard till then.
"I do," replied Euphrosyne; "and I hope he will know better, and feel better, before he is L'Ouverture's ago." "Ha! he ought to know what disloyal little hearts there are beating against him in this Saint Domingo that he thinks all his own."
The abbess repeated what she had said about L'Ouverture's office, and the requirements of justice. "Justice! justice!" exclaimed Euphrosyne. "There has been no justice till now; and so the first act is nothing but cruelty." The abbess with a look dismissed sister Claire, who, by her report of Euphrosyne's rebellion against justice, sent in Father Gabriel.
"Another shot!" said the abbess. "It is a fearful execution. I should have been glad to have removed this poor child out of hearing of these shots; but I had no notice of what was to happen, till the streets were too full for her to appear in them." "A piece of L'Ouverture's haste!" said sister Claire. "A fresh instance, perhaps, of his wise speed," observed the abbess.
Rainsford's book is nearly unreadable, from the absurdity of its style; but it is truly respectable in my eyes, notwithstanding, from its high appreciation of L'Ouverture's character. It contains more information concerning Toussaint than can be found, I believe, anywhere else, except in the Biographie; and it has the advantage of detailing what fell under the writer's own observation.
Because mental strength, endurance, and industry do not appear prominently in the Negro race, he looks forward with satisfaction to the day when a band of white buccaneers shall undo Toussaint l'Ouverture's work of liberation in Hayti, advises the English to revoke the Emancipation Act in Jamaica, and counsels the Americans to lash their slaves better, he admits, made serfs and not saleable by auction not more than is necessary to get from them an amount of work satisfactory to the Anglo-Saxon mind.
"He would sooner lay a train to the root of Cibao, and blow up the island," exclaimed Euphrosyne. "Are you one of his party, young lady? You look too much as if you were but just landed from France for me to suppose that I was speaking before a friend of L'Ouverture's.
Leclerc invited Toussaint to visit him at Cap; as well aware, doubtless, as Toussaint himself, that this open indication of amity was necessary to protect the army from the ill-will of the blacks, who would not believe, on any other authority than L'Ouverture's own, that he had made peace with the invaders. It was a mournful, though showy demonstration, and all parties were glad when it was over.
L'Ouverture's cabin, to which he was strictly confined during the voyage, had a window in the stern, and he, too, had therefore some change of prospect. He gazed eagerly at every shifting picture of the land; but most eagerly when he found himself off Cap Samana.
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