Papa, do you know why mammy has always been so distressed whenever I talked of going there ?" "Painful associations, no doubt.

Poor creature! it was there her husband--an unruly negro belonging to a neighboring planter--was sold away from her, and there she lost her children, one by accidental drowning, the others by some epidemic disease.

Your own mother, too, died there, and Chloe I think never loved one of her own children better." "No, I'm sure not.

But she never told me of her husband and children, and I thought she had never had any.

And now, papa, that we are done with business for the present, I have a request to make." "Well, daughter, what is it ?" "That you will permit me to renew my old intimacy with Lucy Carrington; or at least to call on her.