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 *edly inherited from European ancestors, for scholars tell us that into Kabylia has drifted the débris of many a Greek and Roman colony. Happy in the ignorance of what the future has in store for them, these pretty little savages greet us with such merry demands for pennies that our store of coppers quickly melts away in the sunshine of their smiles. Perhaps the little one who gazes so frankly at us with her fine big eyes is already sold. She may be destined to abuse and neglect; years of hard labor are her certain lot, and possibly, when she shall have lost her youthful charm, her husband, with the sanction of the Kabyle law, will divorce her by uttering a simple formula that instantly unties the marriage knot.

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The law, however, permits her to remarry after a certain lapse of time, the most curious part of the situation being that if she does remarry and her father receives a second sum