If your love was pure and lawful I am sure your angel guardian smiled upon you; and if it was not, I cannot say you have nothing to answer for, and yet I think God may have said 'She is a quadroone; all the rights of her womanhood trampled in the mire, sin made easy to her--almost compulsory,--charge it to account of whom it may concern.'" "No, no!" said Madame Delphine, looking up quickly, "some of it might fall upon"-- Her eyes fell, and she commenced biting her lips and nervously pinching little folds in her skirt.

"He was good--as good as the law would let him be--better, indeed, for he left me property, which really the strict law does not allow.

He loved our little daughter very much.

He wrote to his mother and sisters, owning all his error and asking them to take the child and bring her up.

I sent her to them when he died, which was soon after, and did not see my child for sixteen years.