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"He goin' to fine that droll," said the quadroon. The wife's face confessed her pleasure. "It's as much mine as his," she said. "Is you mek dat?" asked the nurse, as she drew its silken cord about the convalescent's waist. "Yes. Don't draw it tight; leave it loose so; but you can tie the knot tight. That will do; there!" She smiled broadly. "Don't tie me in as if you were tying me in forever."
"Fifteen hundred dollars bid for the Quadroon! good housekeeper sempstress fifteen hundred dollars!" "Two thousand!" I called out, my voice husky with emotion. The sudden leap over such a large sum drew the attention of the crowd upon me. Looks, smiles, and innuendoes were freely exchanged at my expense. I saw, or rather heeded them not.
You are now to keep your ground and expect me at the hills. Pray let A.B.A. know that gamp is a black man, otherwise he may be shocked at the appearance of A.B., who is now about the colour of Peter Yates. Not brown, but a true quadroon yellow; whether from the effects of climate, or travelling four hundred miles in a canoe, is no matter. Fayetteville, October 23, 1804.
There was a hissing emphasis upon the concluding word, that expressed anger and pain, the pain of bitter jealousy. "Oh monsieur!" replied the quadroon, "how can you speak thus? I love! I, a poor slave! Alas! alas!" Neither the tone nor substance of this speech exactly pleased me.
FOR many years the South has been noted for its beautiful Quadroon women.
It was impossible not to see with what feeling Maud the Quadroon dwelt upon the good qualities of him she referred to, declaring that he was a father to all the people he took away in his ship, and how kind he was to them; that he always knocked off their shackles at once and made friends of them by real kindness. Mrs.
"Ah, bah!" said Valentine, tossing his head, "the Yankees would be down on us before you could count one." "Well, then, behind the Jesuits' warehouses, if you insist. I don't care. Perdition take such a government! I am almost sorry I went to the governor's reception." "It was quiet, I hear; a sort of quiet ball, all promenading and no contra-dances. One quadroon ball is worth five of such."
"Indeed!" said Olive, smiling, for the little old maid was as brave as a lion among these gloomiest of all gloomy lanes, familiar to her even in dark nights, and this was a sunny spring morning. "I am not going to see an ordinary poor person, but that Quadroon woman Mrs. Manners, who is one of my brother's models sometimes you know her?" "Scarcely; but I have seen her pass through the hall.
We all ov us helped fer ter put 'em in de wagon, hid undeh a lot o' truck, an' den Sikes he done drove 'em out thro' de bluffs. Ah done walked wif de gal, an' she tol' mor' 'bout herself, an' whar she cum frum; an' dat wus her name, sah." "Her name? What name?" "Rene Beaucaire; de quadroon woman, she wus her mother."
Whilst waiting at the landing-place amidst the bustle incident to shifting baggage, landing passengers, and packing carriages, I witnessed a wedding assemblage that amused me highly, and was no bad sample of slavery in the Old Dominion. From a large hut close to where we were set ashore poured forth a bevy of beauty of all colours, from the deepest jet up to the quadroon just tinged with amber.
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