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In the upper gallery, where no pay of favorite mulatto or mustee slaves; in the boxes the lustre

and sweep of dahter, silvery voices, the

flutter of fans; everywhere the vividness and aniely

cohts were high

Nor did the conversation of so e lack a certain

pictorial quality, a somewhat fantastic opulence of reference and

allusion Of whataside of the piece of baize which hung between them and an

Oriental camp? There was the staple of their wealth, a broad-leafed plant,

the sht have wrapped its native fields

in a perpetual haze as of Indian sueneration to generation, against the standing armies of

the forest, that subtle foe that slept not, retreated not, whose vanguard,

ever falling, ever showed unbroken ranks beyond

Trapper and trader and ranger h the wilderness vast and hostile, of

canoes upon unknoaters, of beasts of prey, creatures screah the ebony woods Of Indian villages, also, and of red

men who, in the fastnesses that were left thee fashions The whiteas the wind, drove the red

man before his face like an autumn leaf, but he beckoned to the black man,

and the black man came at his call He came in nu was in chains What he had to sell was

valuable, but the purchase price caht

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