"Where are you going ?" asked their father.
"To the library company's room--to-night is their last lecture." "I thought," said Winston, "that coloured persons were excluded from such places.

I certainly have been told so several times." "It is quite true," replied Mr.Ellis; "at the lectures of the white library societies a coloured person would no more be permitted to enter than a donkey or a rattle-snake.

This association they speak of is entirely composed of people of colour.

They have a fine library, a debating club, chemical apparatus, collections of minerals, &c.

They have been having a course of lectures delivered before them this winter, and to-night is the last of the course." "Wouldn't you like to go, Mr.Winston ?" asked Mrs.Ellis, who had a mother's desire to secure so fine an escort for her daughters.
"No, no--don't, George," quickly interposed Mr.Ellis; "I am selfish enough to want you entirely to myself to-night.