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It was Moyse who convinced the whole party from the plain that a hut of bamboo and palm-leaves would fall in an hour before one of the hail-storms of this rocky coast; and that it would not do to build on the sands, lest some high tide should wash them all away in the night.
Then she resumed her woman's office of intercession; and by it won for herself the title of "the Good Empress." The eyes which first caught sight of the receding ship Heros, at dawn, were those of Paul L'Ouverture and Genifrede. They were left alone, but not altogether forlorn. They called each other father and daughter; and here they could freely, and for ever, mourn Moyse.
But tell me if I forget you if I love another what then?" And he looked upon her with eyes so full of love, that she laughed, and withdrew herself from his arms, saying, as she sauntered on along the blossom-strewn path "Then I will forget you too." Moyse lingered for a moment, to watch her stately form, as she made a pathway for herself amidst the tangled shrubs.
The report spread that Moyse L'Ouverture was come; and he was soon seen, superintending the placing of cannon in the streets, and the mustering of soldiers in the squares. The presence of the young man inspired an enthusiasm inferior only to that which waited on the steps of his uncle.
"How can I, when my father is always exalting them?" "You must choose between him and me. Love the whites with him, or hate them with me." "But you love my father. Moyse?" "I do. I adore him as the saviour of the blacks. You adore him, Genifrede. Every one of our race worships him. Genifrede, you love him your father." "I know not Yes, I loved him the other day. I know not, Moyse.
She enjoys nothing, except when Moyse is by her side." "Well, Moyse will presently be by her side; and for life. I was proud of him, Margot, last week, at Cap. I know his military talents, from the day when we used to call the boy General Moyse. I saw by his eye, when I announced him as General Moyse in Cap, that he remembered those old days on the north shore.
General Vincent, a word with you." While he and Vincent spoke apart, Aimee exclaimed, "Oh, Moyse! Go with my father!" "Do not Oh, do not!" cried Genifrede. "You will never return!" she muttered to him, in a voice of terror. "Aimee, you would send him away: and my mother all of us, are far from home. Who knows but that Rigaud " "Leave Rigaud to me," cried Vincent, gaily, as he rejoined the party.
"One would think you had lived in Cap all your days," said Moyse. "Do you look for wild-fowl in a garden?" "We will see presently," said the boy, thrusting himself into the thicket in the direction of the ponds, and guiding himself by the scent of the blossoming reeds so peculiar as to be known among the many with which the air was filled.
"To Cap," said he, "where Father Laxabon will follow me immediately, with Monsieur Pascal. By them, Aimee, you will send your packet for Isaac. My own horse is waiting." "Do not go alone do not go without good escort," said Moyse. "I can give you reason." "I know your thoughts, Moyse. I go for the very reason that there are, or will be, troubles at Cap.
Call him back, Genifrede!" "If you are engaged, Moyse," said she in a sickening voice, "if I am in your way, I will go." "No, no, my love. But I must see your father. Everything may depend upon it." "I will go as soon as I can," said the poor girl, beginning to sink to the floor. "You shall not go, my love my Genifrede," cried Moyse, supporting her to a sofa.
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