It made me so mad I could have choked him--it is bad enough to be treated with _hauteur_ by a white man, but contempt from a nigger is almost unendurable." "Why didn't you resent it in some way?
I never would have submitted to anything of the kind from him," interrupted Mrs.Stevens.
"Oh, I don't dare to just now; I have to be as mild as milk with him.

You forget about the mortgage; don't you know he has me in a tight place there, and I don't see how to get out of it either.

If I am called Slippery George, I tell you what, Jule, there's not a better man of business in the whole of Philadelphia than that same Walters, nigger as he is; and no one offends him without paying dear for it in some way or other.

I'll tell you something he did last week.

He went up to Trenton on business, and at the hotel they refused to give him dinner because of his colour, and told him they did not permit niggers to eat at their tables.