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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... sit still, Molly, and don't you worry," Brent said in an undertone. "They can't do anything but fine me, and there will be plenty of people in Alexandria to go on my bond if that's necessary." Aloud he co.uld not refrain from expressing his indignation that a lady and gentleman could be subjected to such treatment within plain sight of the capital of the United States. They seemed to have forgotten down here that Lee had surrendered. He wondered what the president would say to this. "You are in the State of Virginia now," a fellow passenger replied, "and it doesn't matter in the least what your friend the president would say, or what he thinks. He has his way of treating negroes and we have ours." "Some like one way an' some like the other," observed a dejected wreck of a poor white who had drifted in from the smoker. "'Most everybody down this-a-way don't think a nigger has no business into a white man's dining-room unless he's got a napkind over his arm an' is stepping lively to pass the vittles. Yes, sir, speak when you're spoken to, come when you're called, that's the golden rule we go by in dealing with niggers down this-a-way." Mrs. Brent, who was enduring a very anguish of mortification, almost feared to look at her husband. When, however, she did summon courage to do so, to her surprise all trace of anger had vanished from his face. His lips were set firmly in a grim smile of triumph. Again destiny was busy in his behalf. The moment might be bitterly humiliating, but his compensation was certain. Already he was reading the head-lines in the newspapers. Before the car rolled into Alexandria he was completely master of himself and of the situation; benignant, full of calm dignity, only concerned that Mrs. Brent had been exposed to such...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 115055634X
- ISBN 13 9781150556340
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages218
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