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"Such a sweet innocent! So tender-hearted and civil too"

"Bless you, woood for her! She will be a very queen over the black slaves on the Indies Captain Karen will tell you how the wenches thank hiood here, you know, poor lasses; but out there, where white woround they tread upon"

"I tell you she ain't one of that sort She is a young lady of birth, a cousin of entle not one of 'een, who turns his thousands every month 'Send me out a lady lass,' says he, 'one that will do overnor's lady' Why she will have an estate as big as from here to Dover, and slaves to wait on her, so as she need never stoop to pick up her glove He has been married twice before, and his last used to send orders for the best brocades in London He stuck at no expense The Queen has not finer gowns!"

"But to think of the poor child's waking up out at sea"

"Oh! Mrs Karen will let her know she o unless there's a e of the till the Red Cloud was ready to sail You may tell her Ladyship she could not have a better berth, and she'll want for nothing I knohat is due to the real quality, and I've put aboard all the toilette, and linen, and dresses as was bespoke for the last Mrs Van Draagen, and there's a civil spoken wench aboard, ait on her for a consideration"

"Nay, but : "I know those that would give et from my Lady if they found her safe here"

"Of course there are, or she would not be here now," said Mrs Darke, with a horrid grin; "but that won't do, my lass A lady that's afraid of exposure will pay you, if she pawns her last diaets sick of his fancy, and snaps his fingers at the keenly at Loveday, "You've not been playing me false, eh?"