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Her mother had been a Northerner slave; her father, a native freeman, / a wheelwright. When she was five years old they had died in a plague. / She had been transferred to the Pens and raised by her aunt. When she / was fifteen her beauty had attracted the Duke and he had installed / her in the palace. There she gave birth to his two sons, now ten and / eleven, who would soon be taken away from her and raised in the Duke's / household as free and petted servants.
The Duke had married the present Duchess several years after his / liaison with Amra began and her jealousy had forced him to get rid of / Amra. Back to the Pens she had gone; perhaps the Duke had not been / too sad to see her go, for living with her was like living with a / hurricane, and he liked peace and quiet too well.