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The results of this innovation, in slum, and slave-quarter, and in the haunts of poverty. Your talk has all been of the middle and upper classes, and of the benefits accruing to them, from increased oxygen-consumption. But how about the others? Every ounce of oxygen you take out of the air, leaves it just so much poorer.
The slave-quarter was scarcely distinguishable from the wood behind it, so nearly was it overgrown with weeds. A young foal was browsing on the thatch, and a crowd of glittering lizards darted out and away on the approach of human feet.
When the gentlemen arrived at Arabie, his plantation, they found the iron gates down, and lying on the grass young trees hewn down, as if for bludgeons the cattle couched in the cane-fields, lapped in the luxury of the sweet tops and sprouts the doors of the sugar-house and mansion removed, the windows standing wide, and no one to answer call. The slave-quarter also was evidently deserted.
Such a man was, of course, particularly busy this week; and of course, the slaves under his charge were particularly idle, and particularly likely to have friends from other plantations to visit them. Some such visitor seemed to be expected by a family of these Breda negroes, on the Monday evening, the 22nd. This family did not live in the slave-quarter.
If a master died, his heir succeeded him; if the "force" of any plantation was by any conjuncture of circumstances dispersed or removed, another negro company was on the shore, ready to re-people the slave-quarter.
Jacques did not stay at the slave-quarter; but he desired his company to remain there and in the neighbouring field, while he went with Therese to bring out their chief to them. They went up to the house; but in no one of its deserted chambers did they find Toussaint. "Perhaps he is in his own cottage," said Therese.
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