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young ladies who were in the Prince of Cabano's carriage the morning I whipped the driver. He replied that he had not observed them particularly, as he was too much excited and al

ed after a pause, for I shrank from reve

tly; "probably a couple o

nd I half rose from my chair, my f

ked Maximilian; "I hope I hav

exhibition of feeling into which I had

d looked, for but a moment, at the younger of t

palace; he has his agents at work everywhere buying up handsome women; and when I saw two

ng about? This is free America, and the twentieth c

ss, without a single superstition--never knew, in its worst estate, a more complete and abominable despotism than that under which we live. And as it would be worse to starve to death in sight of the most delicious viands than in the midst of a foodless desert, so the very assertions, constantly dinned in our ears by the hireling newspapers, that we are the freest people on earth, serve only to make our slavery more bitter and unbearable. But as to the buying up of women fo

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ty, in man or woman, is a magnificent flower which blossoms only in the rich soil of prosperity: impoverish the land and the bloom withers. If there are cases that seem to you otherwise, it is simply because the pressure has not been great e

"look at the martyrs who have peri

rrounded by the low, the ignorant, the vile; close every avenue and prospect of hope; shut off every ennobling thought or sight or deed; and then subject the emaciated frame to endless toil and hopeless hunger, and the very fibers of the soul will rot under the debasing ordeal; and there is no

e subject we were speaking of. I feel very confident that the younger of those two women I saw in that carriage is pure. God never placed such a majestic and nobl

Master Cupid, my dear Gabriel, has penetrated q

at I would like to know something more about that young la

y in the household of every rich man in New York. I will first find out who she is. I will ask the Master of the Servants, who is a

rote a message, placed it in an interior cavity, which connected with a pneumatic tube, rang a bell, and in a few

e younger, Miss Estella Washington; both m

ated; "a noble name. Can you

y, and we possess the most complete information, not only as to our own members

d it by the pneumatic tube to the central office of that district, whence it was forwarded at o

ge of the Supreme Court of the United States for fifteen years. Sophia, mother of Estella, née Wainwright, an accomplished Greek and Sanscrit scholar, daughter of Professor Elias Wainwright, who occupied the chair of psychological science in Yale College for twenty years. Families of both parents people of great learning and social position, but not wealthy in any of the branches. History: Father died when Estella was eight years old, leaving his family po

le descent would increase the price which her personal charms would bring. On the 5th day of last month she sold her, for $5,000, to the Master of the Servants of the so-called Prince of Cabano; and she was taken to his house. Estella who is quite ignorant of the wickedne

er, while it confirmed its truth, added to the horrors of the awful story of crime! Think of it! a pure, beautiful, cultured, confiding girl, scarcely yet a woman, consigned to a terrible fate, by one whom she loved and trusted. And the l

ust be

ntact with this debased age, was also stirred to his depths;

elp you,

can we do?

reys on innocence and youth. We have one thing in our favor: the Master of the Servants, who bought Estella, is the same person who answered my first message. He be

ver; the handsome eyes flashed with a fierce ligh

re everything is possible. Never unsheathe that knife until you are compelled to use it, for a scratch from it is certain and instant death; it is charged with the most de