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At Home And Abroad

CHAPTER VII
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are war-like or expressive of wild scenery.
But in this one is great room both for fun and fancy.
The Indian was married, when young, by her parents, to a man she did not love.

He became dissipated, and did not maintain her.

She left him, taking with her their child, for whom and herself she earns a subsistence by going as chambermaid in these boats.

Now and then, she said, her husband called on her, and asked if he might live with her again; but she always answered, No.

Here she was far freer than she would have been in civilized life.


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