He had to throw that sop to the whale." "Does she take sides against the girl ?" "No, I don't think she does.

She says she feels sorry for her, and that she would hate to be colored.

'It is so hard to be looked down on for what one can't help.'" "Poor child! I wish we could leave the country.

I never would consent to her marrying any one without first revealing to him her connection with the negro race.

This is a subject on which I am not willing to run any risks." "My dear Marie, when you shall have read Iola's letter you will see it is more than a figment of my imagination that has made me so loth to have our children know the paralyzing power of caste." Leroy, always liberal with his wife and children, spared neither pains nor expense to have them prepared for their summer outing.