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Fill your glasses, then, gentlemen, and drink drink deep with me Our curse on the memory of Vincent Oge!" Several members of the company eagerly filled their glasses; others looked doubtfully towards the chair. Before Dr Protean seemed to have made up his mind what to do, Monsieur Papalier had risen, saying, in a rather low and conversational tone

She bid me call to see the spot where you're lyin', my buried flower, an' to tell you that we're not now, thanks be to God, as we wor whin you lived wid us. We are well to do now, acushla oge machree, an' not in hunger, an' sickness, an' misery, as we wor whin you suffered them all!

Everything within the walls was in its nicest order some time before Madame Oge's carriage drew up before the gate. Two or three of the sisters and Euphrosyne were with the abbess in her parlour, when Madame Oge entered.

I won't believe that lie of my boy, no more than I ever believed a word of' what was sed against him. Shawn Oge aroon, you won't refuse me, avillish. What 'ud become of me, avich ma chree, if you fight him? Would you have the mother's heart broken, an' our roof childless all out?

The representations of the emigrants coming in aid of the secret wishes of Bonaparte, have, under his encouragement, turned the heads of his family, his court, and after them, of his people." "They appear to forget that any form of evil but Oge and you, father, ever entered their paradise. They say that, but for you, they might have been all this while in paradise.

Meehaul Neil paused and looked after him, equally struck with surprise and contempt at his apparent want of spirit. "Well," he exclaimed to those who stood about him, "by the life within me, if all the parish had sworn that Lamh Laudher Oge was a coward, I'd not a b'lieved them!" "Faix, Misther Neil, who would, no more, than yourself?" they replied; "devil the likes of it ever we seen!

The blood of the mulatto Ogé and his accomplices, shed by M. de Blanchelande, governor of San Domingo and the colonial council, sowed every where despair and conspiracy. Ogé, deputed to Paris by the men of colour to assert their rights in the Constituent Assembly, had become known to Brissot, Raynal, Grégoire, and was affiliated with them to the Society of the Friends of the Blacks.

The whites resisted the government decrees and uprisings began. The first of these was a revolt of the mulattoes under Oge, which was quickly suppressed. Oge fled to Spanish Santo Domingo, but was surrendered by the Spaniards on condition that his life be spared, a promise that was not kept for he was publicly broken on the wheel.

"It would be strange, certainly," replied Euphrosyne, "to see the philosophical Monsieur Pascal hoeing canes, or working at the mill. Yet I believe we may be certain that he will be a slave as soon as Toussaint, or any negro in Saint Domingo." "Young people like to be positive," said Madame Oge to the abbess.

She therefore thought the abbess grievously strict when she replied that her charge would prefer spending the evening in her own chamber. "As you please," said Madame Oge. "It was my wish to do the child a kindness; and perhaps to have the pleasure myself of seeing a young face for an hour or two the rarest of all sights to me.