You may imagine my astonishment--I was completely dumb--and it would have done you good to have seen the air with which she left the room, after as good as telling me to leave the house." "Well," said Mr.Stevens, "this is what may be safely termed an unexpected event.

But, Jule," he continued, "you had better pack these young folks off to bed, and then you can tell me the rest of it." Clarence stood for some time on the steps of the house from which he had been so unkindly ejected, with his little heart swelling with indignation.
He had often heard the term nigger used in its reproachful sense, but never before had it been applied to him or his, at least in his presence.

It was the first blow the child received from the prejudice whose relentless hand was destined to crush him in after-years.
It was his custom, when any little grief pressed upon his childish heart, to go and pour out his troubles on the breast of his mother; but he instinctively shrunk from confiding this to her; for, child as he was, he knew it would make her very unhappy.

He therefore gently stole into the house, crept quietly up to his room, lay down, and sobbed himself to sleep..