13/22 Today your friendship springs from compassion, but, when that subsides, might you not look on me as an inferior ?" "Iola, you do not understand me. You must not judge me by the worst of my race. Surely our country has produced a higher type of manhood than the men by whom you were tried and tempted." "Tried, but not tempted," said Iola, as a deep flush overspread her face; "I was never tempted. I was sold from State to State as an article of merchandise. |