They lean too much on their slaves, have too much irresponsible power in their hands, are narrowed and compressed by the routine of plantation life and the lack of intellectual stimulus." "Yes, Eugene, when I see what other women are doing in the fields of literature and art, I cannot help thinking an amount of brain power has been held in check among us.

Yet I cannot abide those Northern women, with their suffrage views and abolition cant.

They just shock me." "But your mother was a Northern woman," said Eugene.
"Yes; but she got bravely over her Northern ideas.

As I remember her, she was just as much a Southerner as if she had been to the manor born.
She came here as a school-teacher, but soon after she came she married my father.

He was easy and indulgent with his servants, and held them with a very loose rein.