I want them well fitted for any emergency in life.
When I discover for what they have the most aptitude I will give them especial training in that direction." A troubled look passed over the face of Marie, as she hesitatingly said: "I am so afraid that you will regret our marriage when you fully realize the complications it brings." "No, no," said Leroy, tenderly, "it is not that I regret our marriage, or feel the least disdain for our children on account of the blood in their veins; but I do not wish them to grow up under the contracting influence of this race prejudice.

I do not wish them to feel that they have been born under a proscription from which no valor can redeem them, nor that any social advancement or individual development can wipe off the ban which clings to them.

No, Marie, let them go North, learn all they can, aspire all they may.

The painful knowledge will come all too soon.

Do not forestall it.