If both had owned plantations in Louisiana, they would have been as like as two old bullets cast in the same mould." "What an undutiful boy you are!" said Miss Ophelia.
"I don't mean them any disrespect," said St.Clare.

"You know reverence is not my forte.

But, to go back to my history: "When father died, he left the whole property to us twin boys, to be divided as we should agree.

There does not breathe on God's earth a nobler-souled, more generous fellow, than Alfred, in all that concerns his equals; and we got on admirably with this property question, without a single unbrotherly word or feeling.

We undertook to work the plantation together; and Alfred, whose outward life and capabilities had double the strength of mine, became an enthusiastic planter, and a wonderfully successful one.
"But two years' trial satisfied me that I could not be a partner in that matter.