The previous ceremony on the Grandissime back piazza need be no impediment; all slave-owners understood those things.

Following Honore's advice, the f.m.c., who had come into possession of his paternal portion, sent to Cannes Brulees a written offer, to buy Palmyre at any price that her master might name, stating his intention to free her and make her his wife.

Colonel De Grapion could hardly hope to settle Palmyre's fate more satisfactorily, yet he could not forego an opportunity to indulge his pride by following up the threat he had hung over Agricola to kill whosoever should give Palmyre to a black man.

He referred the subject and the would-be purchaser to him.

It would open up to the old braggart a line of retreat, thought the planter of the Cannes Brulees.
But the idea of retreat had left Citizen Fusilier.
"She is already married," said he to M.Honore Grandissime, f.m.c.