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Updated: June 6, 2025
There was a certain fascination in the contradiction of stature and character of Hilma a great girl, half-child as yet, but tall as a man for all that. There was a moment's awkward silence, then Hilma explained: "I I came back to look for my hat. I thought I left it here this afternoon." "And I was looking for my hat," cried Annixter. "Funny enough, hey?"
Take up the White Man's burden, Send forth the best ye breed, Go, bind your sons to exile, To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child. Little Willie, in the tracts, scarcely dreamed of a thornier path of self-sacrifice.
She had eaten of all that nature allots to women love, marriage, the birth of children, the loss of them and there she was, to this day half-child, and quite incompatible with what she had suffered and endured. "After a fortnight I got quieter of course," said Stella. "And suddenly a change sadder than anything I have told you took place in me.
The supporting arguments grow and twist themselves in the mouths of merchant, scientist, soldier, traveler, writer, and missionary: Darker peoples are dark in mind as well as in body; of dark, uncertain, and imperfect descent; of frailer, cheaper stuff; they are cowards in the face of mausers and maxims; they have no feelings, aspirations, and loves; they are fools, illogical idiots, "half-devil and half-child."
Half-child, half-savage, he seemed to be bound by none of the restraints that civilised men early learn to place upon their instincts. He expressed his anger, his sorrow, his love, with all the abandon that characterised the natives of those sunny shores where the first years of his life were spent.
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