Beadle's Dime Novels No. 33: Maum Guinea and Her Plantation Children — page 108: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER VIII. _ ALLIGATOR STORIES. The alligator, swimming in the lonely lagoon Strains his dull ear to enieh the binfo-tene. ’ . Necro Metopres. - Pamir was hardly sorry, upon second-thought, to hear that Mr. Talfierro was after a slave-girl instead of a wife, for that gentleman was reputed immensely wealthy, and had just that incense of fashion and family hanging about him as would have made him a formidable rival with the parents, if not with the daughter. If Mr. Talfierro had offered to cancel his claims * pon Judge Bell, by a proposition for the hand o his child, the old gentleman would hardly have had grace to withstand the temptation of so brilliant an alliance, even if the girl's fancies did seem at present to be fixed upon another object. But this dangerous person seemed to be so confirmed in Virginia had any deeper effect upon him than to draw out his most graceful compliments; and against these she was well fortified by the assurance of somebody else’s devotion. Talking the matter over, that Sunday evening, in a sly nook of the deep-windowed parlors, the lovers came to the conclusion that it would be safe for Philip to ask the father’s consent to their engagement, upon the very first opportunity ; and this opportunity occurred immediately. - Judge Bell was in the adjoining library, and wanted the help of Philip's younger eyes in finding a certain book upon comicloooks.comn