She would order the servants of my young mistresses upon her errands, and if they pleaded their prior duty to obey the calls of another, would demand that they should be forthwith whipped for their insolence.

If the young ladies remonstrated with her, she met them with a perfect torrent of invective and abuse.

In these paroxysms of fury she always spoke in French, with a vehemence and volubility, which strongly contrasted with the calmness and firmness of the young ladies.

She would boast of what she had done in New-Orleans, and of the excellent discipline of her father's slaves.
She said she had gone down in the night to the cell under her father's house, and whipped the slaves confined there with her own hands.

I had heard the same thing from her father's servants at New-Orleans, when I was there with my master.