"There are plenty among them who have only enough of the African to give a sort of tropical warmth and fervor to our calculating firmness and foresight.

If ever the San Domingo hour comes, Anglo Saxon blood will lead on the day.

Sons of white fathers, with all our haughty feelings burning in their veins, will not always be bought and sold and traded.

They will rise, and raise with them their mother's race." "Stuff!--nonsense!" "Well," said Augustine, "there goes an old saying to this effect, 'As it was in the days of Noah so shall it be;--they ate, they drank, they planted, they builded, and knew not till the flood came and took them.'" "On the whole, Augustine, I think your talents might do for a circuit rider," said Alfred, laughing.

"Never you fear for us; possession is our nine points.