Her bondage was merely nominal, for the tie of affection remained constant between them as long as she lived; and he would have married her if such marriages had been legal in Louisiana.
By some unaccountable carelessness, he neglected to manumit her.

She left two handsome and accomplished daughters, who always supposed their mother to be a Spanish lady, and the wedded wife of their father.

But he died insolvent, and, to their great dismay, they found themselves claimed as slaves under the Southern law, that 'the child follows the condition of the mother.' A Southern gentleman, who was in love with the eldest, married her privately, and smuggled them both away to Nassau.

After a while he went there to meet them, having previously succeeded in buying them of the creditors.

But his conduct toward the younger was so base, that she absconded.