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Mrs. Kean, and spoke with satisfaction of having 

 once acted second to her when she was Miss Ellen 

 Tree. During her husband s illness at Vicksburg, 

 she had been obliged to take the management of the 

 theatre herself, and had good reason to lament that 

 the temperance movement had not reached so far 

 west. The physician, after attending his patient for 

 many weeks in a fever, remitted to them a bill of 

 fifty dollars, one only of many similar acts of gene 

 rosity in the members of this profession which came 

 to my knowledge in the course of my tour. This 

 actress had with her a young maid, fairer than many 

 an English brunette, but who, though a free woman, 

 did not happen to belong to the white aristocracy. 

 The stewardess came into the cabin and summoned 

 her to dinner, and she, doing as she was bid, sat down 

 at the second table, where the officers of the ship and 

 the white children were dining. When her repast 

 was half finished, her master and mistress suddenly 

 discovered the prodigious breach of decorum which 

 their attendant was perpetrating, and, calling her 

 away from the table, began explaining to one lady 

 after another, especially those with whose children 

 she had been sitting, that she was really a good girl, 

 who knew no better. The stewardess also, knowing 

 she should incur blame, came and apologised for her 

 mistake, observing that the girl was quite undis- 

 tinguishable by her complexion from a white. There 

 was a quadroon lady on board, of very respectable 

 appearance and manners, who was taking all her 

 meals in her own state-room, thus avoiding the 

 risk of meeting with similar indignities. It is not 



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