The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-14 00:00:00

OCTOBER 14,

A ST:4A.V.f: STOR

sad intelligence Chet on amount of Mary'a fading George
to escape, the court had compelled Mr. Green to fall her
out of the State, and he had been sold to a Negro
trader and taken to the New Orleans market. As ail
hope of getting the. girl was new gone, George resolved
to quit the American continent for ever. He imme-
diately took passage in a vessel laden with timber, bound
for Liverpool, and in five weeks from that time he was
standing on the quay of the great English seaport.
With little or no education, he found many difficulties
in the way of getting a respectable living. However, he
obtained a situation as porter in a large house in Man-
chester, where he worked during the day, and took
private lessons at night. In this way ho laboured for
three years, and was then raised to the situation of a
clerk. George was so white as easily to pass for a
a hite man, and being somewhat ashamed cf his African
descent, he never once mentioned the fact of his having
been a slave. He ?!ooa I:Kceme a partner in the firm that
employed him, and was now on the road to wealth.
In the year 1842, just ton year; after G.aege Green
(for he adopted his master's name) erriv,:d in England, I
ho visite,l France, and spent some days at Dunkirk. It
was towards sunset, on a warm day in the month of
October, that Mr. Green, after strolling some distance
from the Hotel de Leon, entered a burial-ground and
wandered long alone among the silent dead, gt.zing upon
the many green graves and marble tombstones of those
who once moved on the theatre of busy life, and whose
sounds of gaiety once fell upon the ear of man. All
nature around was hushed in silence, and seemed to par-
take of the general melancholy which hung over the
quiet resting place of departed mortals. Atter tracing
the varied inscriptions which told the characters or con-
ditions of the departed, and viewing the mounds 'neath
which the dust of mortality slumbered, he had now
reached a secluded spot, near to where an aged weeping
a illo w bowed its thick foliage to the ground, as though
anxious to hide from the serutinizleg gaze of curiosity
the grave beneath it. Mr. Green seated himself noon a
marble tomb, and began to reed Roscoe's " Leo X ," ati
copy of which he had under his arm. It was then about
twilight, and he had scarcely gone through half a page,
when he observed a lady in black, leading a boy some
five years old up one of the paths; and as the lady's
black veil was over her face, ho felt somewhat at liberty
to eye her more closely. While looking at her, the lady
gave a scream and appeared to be in a fainting position,
when Mr. Green sprang from his seat in time to save her
from falling to the ground. At this moment, an elderly
gentleman was seen approaching with a rapid step, who
from his appearance was evidently the lady's father, or
one intimately connected with her. He came up, and
in a confused manner, asked what was the matter. Mr.
Green explained as well as he could. After taking up
the smelling bottle which had fallen from her hand, and
holding it a short time to her face, she soon began to
revive. During all this time, the lady's veil had so
covered her face that Mr. Green bad not seen it. When
she had so far recovered as to be able to raise her
head, she again screamed, and fell back into the arms of
the old man. It now appeared quite certain that either
the countenance of George Green, or some other object,
was the cause of these fits of fainting; and the old gen-
tleman, thinking it was the former, in rather a petulant
tone said, " I will thank you, Sir, if you will leave us
alone." The child whom the lady was leading had now
set up a squall; and amid the death-like appearance of
the lady, the harsh look of the old man, and the cries of
the boy, Mr. Green left the grounds and returned to his
hotel.