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She was a very beautiful quadroon, whose story ran briefly thus: Owned by a Louisiana planter, he had refused permission for her to marry another of his slaves, known as David, because he had, sultan-like, set his own choice upon her.
Such people are little aware, when a boy is differently brought up, how early the notion of his inherent superiority to a girl arises in his mind; how it grows with his growth and strengthens with his strength; how it is inoculated by one schoolboy upon another; how early the youth thinks himself superior to his mother, owing her perhaps forbearance, but no real respect; and how sublime and sultan-like a sense of superiority he feels, above all, over the woman whom he honours by admitting her to a partnership of his life.
This unseen universe was thronged with the most seductive shapes: the Professor moved Sultan-like through a seraglio of ideas. But of all the lovely apparitions that wove their spells about him, none had ever worn quite so persuasive an aspect as this latest favourite.
I am of a Sultan-like disposition I shouldn't mind having slaves to dance for me if they did it well but I should look on from the throne whereon I sat cross-legged, and smoke my pipe in peace." "Always the same!" she said lightly. "Are you never serious?" His eyes darkened suddenly. "Sometimes. Awfully so! And in that condition I become a burden to myself and my friends."
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