Harriet Martineau
The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664626790
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Harriet Martineau
"The Hour and the Man"
Chapter One.
Waiting Supper.
The nights of August are in Saint Domingo the hottest of the year. The winds then cease to befriend the panting inhabitants; and while the thermometer stands at 90 degrees, there is no steady breeze, as during the preceding months of summer. Light puffs of wind now and then fan the brow of the negro, and relieve for an instant the oppression of the European settler; but they are gone as soon as come, and seem only to have left the heat more intolerable than before.
Of these sultry evenings, one