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"That makes no difference; all colored people must have a pass if out late. They choose a master for protection, and always carry his pass. Henry chose Mr. D., but he's lost the pass he had." Feb. 24, 1861. The toil of the week is ended. Nearly a month has passed since I wrote here. Events have crowded upon one another.
It must not be concealed, however, that the impression wrought by this fairy sign-manual varied exceedingly according to the difference of temperament in the beholders. Some fastidious persons but they were exclusively of her own sex affirmed that the bloody hand, as they chose to call it, quite destroyed the effect of Georgiana's beauty and rendered her countenance even hideous.
Mason chose as his adjutant, or secretary, a young lieutenant named Sherman, who, years later, in the Civil War, by his wonderful march through the heart of the South, came to be considered one of the greatest generals of his time. Soon after the Mexican war many settlers were gathered about Sutter's Fort and San Francisco Bay.
He felt that he had done all the courtesy required; he had promptly answered her dispatch with his presence. If she chose to be absent at such a moment, HE had at least done HIS duty.
He should not have them a second time. He had had his will of her. If he chose to throw her away when he had done with her, to prove himself base at last, unworthy of all her care, her counsels, her training, dreadful thought! To have lived to keep that man for her own, and just when her work seemed done, to lose him! No, there was worse than that.
If they chose to dwell in a backwater out of touch with the current of great affairs, this was a matter to be deplored, but I did not feel strongly enough to resent it. So long as I remained a bachelor the relationship had not troubled me, but now that I was married I began to consider with some alarm its power to affect my welfare.
He chose to pay the piper, so that he might call the tune, and though Elsa wounded in her own pride did her best to protest, she was overruled by her mother, who was only too thankful to see this expensive burden taken from off her shoulders.
"And because they had passed away from your mind, I chose you for my comrade. I need a man by whom danger is scorned." "But in the process of which you tell me I see no possible danger unless the ingredients you mix in your caldron have poisonous fumes." "It is not that. The ingredients I use are not poisons." "What other danger, except you dread your own Eastern slaves?
There was not the slightest resentment because of her interference. And yet if she had not interfered he would have worn the hideous yellow cap and been as cheerful under that. Pulcifer had imposed upon him and he realized it, but he deliberately chose being imposed upon rather than listening to the Pulcifer conversation. He was certainly a queer individual, this lodger of hers.
Nay, not so, said the knight; it is fairer, said the knight, that we twain run more together with sharp spears. I will well, said Arthur, an I had any more spears. I have enow, said the knight; so there came a squire and brought two good spears, and Arthur chose one and he another; so they spurred their horses and came together with all their mights, that either brake their spears to their hands.
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