'Twas a fine, extensive place, had a good overseer on it and--I kept it.

Why?
Because I was a coward.

I did not want it or its revenues; but, like my father, I would not offend my people.

Peace first and justice afterwards--that was the principle on which I quietly made myself the trustee of a plantation and income which you would have given back to their owners, eh ?" Frowenfeld was silent.
"My-de'-seh, recollect that to us the Grandissime name is a treasure.
And what has preserved it so long?
Cherishing the unity of our family; that has done it; that is how my father did it.

Just or unjust, good or bad, needful or not, done elsewhere or not, I do not say; but it is a Creole trait.