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| The scenes of this story, as its title indicates, lie among a race hitherto ignored by the associations of polite and refined society; an exotic race, whose ancestors, born beneath a tropic sun, brought with them, and perpetuated to their descendants, a character so essentially unlike the hard and dominant Anglo-Saxon race, as for many years to have won from it only misunderstanding and contempt. |
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| But another and better day is dawning; every influence of literature, poetry and of art, in our times, is becoming more and more in unison with the great master chord of Christianity, "good will to man." |
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| The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten. |
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| The object of these sketches is to awaken sympathy and feelings for the African race, as they exist among us. |
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| Yes, I consider religion a valeyable thing in a nigger, when it's the genuine article, and no mistake. |
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| Her dress was of the neaters possible fit, and set off to advantage her finely moulded shape;--a delicately formed hand and trim foot and ankle were items of appearance that did not escape the quick eye of the trader, well used to run up at a glance the points of a fine female article. |
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| I've seen 'em as would pill a woman's child out of her arms, and set him up to sell, and she screechin' like mad all the time;--very bad policy--damages the article--makes 'em quite unfit for service sometimes. |
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| _____ was a fair average kind of man, good-natured and kindly, and disposed to easy indulgence of those around him, and there had never been a lack of anything which might contribute to the physical comfort of the negroes on his estate. |
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| _____ was a woman of a high class, both intellectually and morally. To that natural magnanimity and generosity of the mind which often marks as characteristic of the women of Kentucky, she added high moral and religious sensibility and principle, carried out with great energy and ability into practical results. |
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| "My country!...what country have I, but the grave,--and I wish to God that I was laid there!" |
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| How sublimely he had sat with his hands in his packets, and scouted all sentimental weakness of those who would put the welfare of a few miserable fugitives before great state interests! |
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| The magic of the real presence of distress,--the imploring human eye, the frail, trembling human hand, the despairing appeal of helpless agony,--these he had never tried. |
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| "Ma'am," she said suddenly, "have you ever lost a child?" |
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| The question was unexpected, and it was a thrust on a new wound ; for it was only a month since a darling child of the family had been laid in the grave. |
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| Rachel Halliday (page 122) |
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| So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women? |
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| Rachel Halliday (page 127) |
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| If there was any danger of friction or collision from the ill-regulated zeal of so many young operators, her gentle "Come! come!" or "I wouldn't, now," was quite sufficient to allay the difficulty. |
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| and a belief in God, and trust in his providence, began to encircle his heart, as, with a golden cloud of protection and confidence, dark, misanthropic, pining, atheistic doubts, and fierce despair, melted away before the light of a living Gospel, breathed in living faces, preached by a thousand unconscious acts of love and good will, which, like the cup of cold water given in the name of a disciple, shall never lose their reward. |
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| Augustine St. Clare (page 139) |
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| His talents were of the very first order, although his mind showed a preference always for the ideal and the atheistic... |
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| Augustine St. Clare (page 203) |
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| "Planters, who have money to make by it,--clergymen, who have planters to please,--politicians, who want to rule by it,--may warp and bend language and ethics to a degree that shall astonish the world at their ingenuity..." |
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| Marie St. Clare (page 140) |
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| As before stated, she consisted of a fine figure, a pair of splendid eyes, and a hundred thousand dollars; and none of these items were precisely the ones to minister to a mind diseased. |
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| Augustine St. Clare (page 212) |
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| "Yet our laws positively and utterly forbid any efficient general educational system, and they do it wisely too; for, just begin and thoroughly educate one generation, and the whole thing would be blown sky high. If we did not give them liberty, they would take it." |
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| Augustine St. Clare (page 201) |
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| "Of course, in a community so organized, what can a man of honorable and humane feelings do, but shut his eyes all he can, and harden his heart?" |
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| Her form was the perfection of childish beauty, without its usual chubbiness and squareness of outline. There was about it an undulating and aerial grace, such as one might dream of for some mythic and allegorical being. |
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| "These things sink into my heart, Tom." |
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| The great sin of sins, in her eyes,--the sum of all evils,--was expressed by one very common and important word in her vocabulary--"shiftlessness." |
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| This woman did not tell her that she made her head ache, but, on the contrary, she hugged her, and laughed, and cried, till her sanity was a thing to be doubted of; and when released from her, Eva flew from one to another, shaking hands and kissing, in a way that Miss Ophelia afterwards declared fairly turned her stomach. |
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| She was one of the blackest of her race; and her round, shining eyes, glittering as glass beads, moved with quick and restless glances over everything in the room...The expression of her face was an odd mixture of shrewdness and cunning, over which was oddly drawn, like a kind of veil, an expression of the most doleful gravity and solemnity. |
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| The idea appeared to amuse her considerably; for her eyes twinkled, and she added: "I spect I grow'd. Don't think nobody ever made me." |
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| The idea appeared to amuse her considerably; for her eyes twinkled, and she added: "I spect I grow'd. Don't think nobody ever made me." |
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| Augustine St. Clare (page 219) |
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| "That's you Christians, all over!--you'll get up a society and get some poor missionary to spend all his days among just such heathen. But let me see one of you that would take one into your house with you, and take the labor of their conversion on yourselves! No; when it comes to that, they are dirty and disagreeable, and it's too much care, and so on." |
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| "Couldn't ever be nothin' but a nigger, if I was ever so good...if I could be skinned, and come white, I'd try then." |
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| "She said she loved me--she did! O, dear! Oh, dear! There an't nobody left now,--there an't!" |
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| "Topsy, you poor child...Don't give up! I can love you, though I am not like that dear little child. I hope I've learnt something of the love of Christ from her. I can love you; I do, and I'll try to help you grow up a good Christian girl." |
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