human
Jean always admires what my husband does, observed Margot to her acquaintance Jacques.
gpt
You hear how he is praising him for what he has done to-night.
human
To be sure. Everybody praises Toussaint Breda,
gpt
Everybody praises him but me, pursued Jacques.
human
I find fault with him sometimes; and to-night particularly.
gpt
Then you are wrong, Jacques. You know you have everybody against you.
human
Time will show that I am right. Time will show the mischief of sending away any whites to do us harm in far countries.
gpt
Oh, you do not blame him for helping away Monsieur Bayou!
human
Yes, I do.
gpt
Why, we have been under him ever since we were children--and a kind youth he was then. And he taught my husband to read, and made him his coachman; and then he made him overseer; and he has always indulged the children, and always bought my young guinea-fowl, and--
human
I know that. All that will not prevent the mischief of helping him away. Toussaint ought to have seen that if we send our masters to all the four sides of the world, they will bring the world down upon us.
gpt
Perhaps Toussaint did see it, said the man himself, from the other side of his wife's horse.
human
But he saw another thing, too--that any whites who stayed would be murdered.
gpt
That is true enough; and murdered they ought to be. They are a race of tyrants and rebels that our warm island hates.
human
Nobody hated Monsieur Bayou,
gpt
Yes, I did. Every one who loves the blacks hates the whites.
human
I think not, said Toussaint.
gpt
At least, it is not so with Him who made them both. He is pleased with mercy, Jacques, and not with murder.