But these!--their ravishing beauty was all but excuse enough for the unbounded idolatry of their father.

Against these seven goddesses he never rebelled.

Had they even required him to defraud old De Carlos-- I can hardly say.
Old De Carlos was his extremely distant relative on the Choctaw side.
With this single exception, the narrow thread-like line of descent from the Indian wife, diminished to a mere strand by injudicious alliances, and deaths in the gutters of old New Orleans, was extinct.

The name, by Spanish contact, had become De Carlos; but this one surviving bearer of it was known to all, and known only, as Injin Charlie.
One thing I never knew a Creole to do.

He will not utterly go back on the ties of blood, no matter what sort of knots those ties may be.