Queen Cora, Or, Slavery and Its Downfall

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...it's not so much her that I'm afraid of, as that cuss'd dagger thing she wears about her; and she'd think no more o' slipping it into a chap's ribs than looking at him. Therefore my best plan is to let her go. Motley.--Well, Symon, do as you like. As for me, I'd have her hide to make a money bag but what I'd master her. Exeunt. SCENE V.--Interior Of A Drawing Room. Mrs St Cloud, and John Mitchell her brother, discovered lounging on sofas--the first fanning herself, and the latter reading a newspaper, with his military cap beside him. Marie.--Ah me, I'm sure, since St Cloud's death, I've been a perfect martyr to persecution; 'twas bad enough when he was living, but now its ten times worse. Mitchell.--Why, what's the matter now, Marie? Marie.--Matter indeed, why you're always reading, or thinking, or something of the kind, an' never got a word to say, while I am so afflicted with this intolerable headache, and general debility, that my life is a complete burden to me; an' then these black creatures are so selfish and ungrateful, there is no dealing with them. For my part, I can't see why the children of poor white people shouldn't be slaves, they'd be much better off. Mitchell.--Well, Marie, I'm of the same opinion. I can't see what poor people were made for, unless to work and pander for the gratifications of the rich. Marie.--It's nothing But what they have a right to expect, they are born to it, an' if I had the making of the laws, I'd soon have it so, then we could do away with these filthy black wretches altogether. O, my poor head, I never thought of it before, but I do believe its the stench of that Twaddy which makes it ache so; her skin fairly stinks, an' so indeed do all the blacks, therefore I'll swap her away; I've spoken to Starling the trader, t...

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