"There was a rumor about his living somewhere out of the city with a handsome quadroon," answered the merchant.

Marie knew that face well; a face which haunted many a dream of hers; once seen, but never forgotten since; for to that old dame's coffin had her mother, the gay quadroon woman, flaunting in finery which was the price of shame, led Marie when she was but a three years' child; and Marie had seen her bend over the corpse, and call it her dear old granny, and weep bitter tears.

On that lonely plantation at the Cannes Brulées, where Aurore Nancanou's childhood had been passed without brothers or sisters, there had been given her, according to the well-known custom of plantation life, a little quadroon slave-maid as her constant and only playmate.

One stratum comprised the fairly numerous quadroons and mulattoes along with certain exceptional blacks.

" Even envy could not hide its noisome head: a pretty quadroon whispered to her neighbor: "I don't b'liebe she 's natch'ly

They were the sons of her bachelor uncle, who had had a passion for Liza, one of his father's slaves, a tall, handsome quadroon, who rejected his suit and was in love with Jo, a fellow slave.