So I simply avoid them, as a rule, for my temper is hasty.

Of course I understand it well enough; they are brought up or trained by their fathers and husbands to regard the native Indian as an inferior being, an opinion in which, on the whole, I heartily concur.

But they go a step farther and include all Asiatics in the same category.

I do not choose to be confounded with a race I consider worn out and effete.

As for the men, it is different.
They know I am rich and influential in many ways that are useful to them now, and they hope that the fortunes of war or revolution may give them a chance of robbing me hereafter, in which they are mistaken.