I have my own opinions about slavery, but I had rather go out of New Orleans before I express them." "A free country indeed!" exclaimed the young man, "where one cannot safely express his indignation against such enormities.

But tell me how the girls were rescued from such a dreadful fate; for by the assurance you gave me at the outset that they needed no assistance, I infer that they were rescued." He listened with as much composure as he could to the account of Mr.
Fitzgerald's agency in their escape, his marriage, Rosabella's devoted love for him, and her happy home on a Paradisian island.

The Signor summed it up by saying, "I believe her happiness has been entirely without alloy, except the sad fate of her sister, of which we heard a few weeks ago." "What has happened to her ?" inquired Alfred, with eager interest.
"She went to the sea-shore to gather mosses, and never returned," replied the Signor.

"It is supposed she slipped into the water and was drowned, or that she was seized by an alligator." "O horrid!" exclaimed Alfred.

"Poor Floracita! What a bright, beaming little beauty she was! But an alligator's mouth was a better fate than slavery." "Again touching upon the dangerous topic!" rejoined the Signor.