The critically learned in such matters, knowing his parentage, might have imagined they could detect the evidence of his mother's race, by the slightly mezzo-tinto expression of his eyes, and the rather African fulness of his lips; but the casual observer would have passed him by without dreaming that a drop of negro blood coursed through his veins.

His face was expressive of much intelligence, and he now seemed to listen with an earnest interest to the conversation that was going on between his father and a dark-complexioned gentleman who sat beside him.
"And so you say, Winston, that they never suspected you were coloured ?" "I don't think they had the remotest idea of such a thing.

At least, if they did, they must have conquered their prejudices most effectually, for they treated me with the most distinguished consideration.

Old Mr.Priestly was like a father to me; and as for his daughter Clara and her aunt, they were politeness embodied.

The old gentleman was so much immersed in business, that he was unable to bestow much attention upon me; so he turned me over to Miss Clara to be shown the lions.