The girls will find beaux enough, I'll warrant you." At this request the girls did not seem greatly pleased, and Miss Caddy, who already, in imagination, had excited the envy of all her female friends by the grand _entree_ she was to make at the Lyceum, leaning on the arm of Winston, gave her father a by no means affectionate look, and tying her bonnet-strings with a hasty jerk, started out in company with her sister.
"You appear to be very comfortable here, Ellis," said Mr.Winston, looking round the apartment.

"If I am not too inquisitive--what rent do you pay for this house ?" "It's mine!" replied Ellis, with an air of satisfaction; "house, ground, and all, bought and paid for since I settled here." "Why, you are getting on well! I suppose," remarked Winston, "that you are much better off than the majority of your coloured friends.

From all I can learn, the free coloured people in the Northern cities are very badly off.
I've been frequently told that they suffer dreadfully from want and privations of various kinds." "Oh, I see you have been swallowing the usual dose that is poured down Southern throats by those Northern negro-haters, who seem to think it a duty they owe the South to tell all manner of infamous lies upon us free coloured people.

I really get so indignant and provoked sometimes, that I scarcely know what to do with myself.

Badly off, and in want, indeed! Why, my dear sir, we not only support our own poor, but assist the whites to support theirs, and enemies are continually filling the public ear with the most distressing tales of our destitution! Only the other day the Colonization Society had the assurance to present a petition to the legislature of this State, asking for an appropriation to assist them in sending us all to Africa, that we might no longer remain a burthen upon the State--and they came very near getting it, too; had it not been for the timely assistance of young Denbigh, the son of Judge Denbigh, they would have succeeded, such was the gross ignorance that prevailed respecting our real condition, amongst the members of the legislature.