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my house is highly respectable-highly respectable (2011-12-13)
Cicero has been nicely got out of the way. Molly, his wife, is summoned into the presence of her mistress, to receive her awful doom.
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I am going to sell you. We have been long enough together, and necessity at this moment forces me to this conclusion," says our
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inquires if Cicero may go. Mrs. Swiggs replies that nobody will buy two old people together.
The slave of seventy years, knowing her entreaties will be in vain, approaches her mistress with the fervency of a child, and grasping
warmly her hand, stammers out: "Da-da-dah Lord bless um, Missus. Tan't many days
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"God bless you-good-bye, Molly. Remember what I have told you so many times-long suffering and forbearance make the true Christian. Be
a Christian-seek to serve your Master faithfully; such the Scripture teacheth. Now tie your handkerchief nicely on your head, and get
your clean apron on, and mind to look good-natured when Mr. Forcheu sells you."
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REGARD us forbearingly, generous and urbane reader; follow us undaunted whither we go, nor charge us with tracing crime in a bad
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who is well known in Charleston, and commonly called the Mother of Sin. It is a massive brick pile, situate in one of the public
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peering cautiously. Madame Flamingo says (the city fathers all know it) she has a scrupulous regard to taste, and develops it in the
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doors of those fashionable churches that imitate so closely the Italian, make good, paying property of fascinating pews, and adopt the
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way of getting to heaven (prayer-book of gold in hand) reclining on velvet and satin damask.
The mansion of Madame Flamingo differs only in sumptuousness of furniture from twenty others of similar character, dotted here and
there about the little city. Add to these the innumerable smaller haunts of vice that line the more obscure streets-that, rampart-
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, and, reader, you may form some estimation of the ratio of vice and wretchedness in this population of thirty thousand, of which the
enslaved form one-third.
Having escorted you to the door, generous reader, we will forget the common-place jargon of the world, and affect a little ceremony,
for Madame Flamingo is delicately exact in matters of etiquette. Touch gently the bell; you will find it there, a small bronze knob,
in the fluting of the frame, and scarce perceptible to the uninitiated eye. If rudely you touch it, no notice will be taken; the
broad, high front of her house will remain, like an ill-natured panorama of brick and freestone,
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gentlemen know how to ring a bell. Well, you have touched it like one of delicate nerves, and like a bell with manners polished by
Madame Flamingo herself, it answers as faintly as does the distant tinkle of an Arab's bell in the desert.
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Having escorted you to the door (2011-12-13)
There! It was recognized as the ring of a genteel gentleman, and Madame Flamingo's heavy foot is heard advancing up the hall. Be a
diplomatist now. Show a white glove, and a delicate hand, and a winning smile,
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the blaze of which flashes upon your senses, and fills you instinctively with curious emotions. Simultaneously a broad, cheerful
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sharp gray eyes peering curiously at us, and a soft but quick accenting voice inquires who we are. Ah! yes, the white glove has told
who we are,
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"If you please, gentlemen," she says, "my house is highly respectable-highly respectable (don't make strange of me tending my own
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of my customers, who are of the first families, depends my dividends.
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Cicero has been nicely got out of the way (2011-12-13)
This she whispers, tripping nervously over the soft carpet up the hall, until she reaches mid-way, where on the right and left are two
massive arched doors of black walnut, with stained glass for fan-lights
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and from whence a relentless world--without hope of regaining the lost jewel-hurls them down a short life, into a premature grave.
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