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"I'll have them dressed up and presented to Latrobe; he is an old courtier, and can wheedle the devil with his tongue. When we reach the city, see that they are clothed in decent suits, and are provided for." Fred, who was riding by my side, overheard the conversation as well as myself.
Latrobe, "they are all Caucasians." "Well," said Dr. Gresham, "is all excellence summed up in that branch of the human race?" "I think," said Dr. Latrobe, proudly, "that we belong to the highest race on earth and the negro to the lowest." "And yet," said Dr. Latimer, "you have consorted with them till you have bleached their faces to the whiteness of your own.
It is your grand opportunity to help build up a new South, not on the shifting sands of policy and expediency, but on the broad basis of equal justice and universal freedom. Do this and you will be blessed, and will make your life a blessing." After Robert and Rev. Carmicle had left the hotel, Drs. Latimer, Gresham, and Latrobe sat silent and thoughtful awhile, when Dr.
Old furniture sells at about 75 per cent. advance on the former prices of new; scarcely any mechanics will work." Latrobe estimated the deficit in the revenue of the year 1853 as nearly four hundred thousand pounds, notwithstanding that he reckoned the whole gold revenue of six hundred thousand pounds as available for general expenses. The revenue from licenses was the source of much contention.
Latrobe, Malachi Yes, that's the one. Now tell me how you like it. It is a little pricked, I think, and may be slightly bruised in the handling. I spent half an hour picking out the cork this morning but there is no question of its value." "Yes," rejoined Latrobe, moistening his lips with the topaz-colored liquid "it is a little bruised.
Freddy Tarlton finished the sentence for him: "For an inner sorrow is a consuming fire." Fort Latrobe soon had an unexpected opportunity to study Soldier Joe's theory. One night Jacques did not appear at Weir's Tavern as he had engaged to do, and Soldier Joe and another went across the frozen river to his log-hut to seek him.
He could not understand why Blanche should stagger and grow white when he told her; nor why she insisted on taking the liquor herself. He did not yet guess the truth. The next day all Fort Latrobe knew that Blanche was nursing Jacques, on what was thought to be his no-return journey. The doctor said it was a dangerous case, and he held out little hope.
As the friendship strengthened between himself and Latrobe they began using him as Cupid's postman, and many little notes and some big ones found their way to and from the Fourth Division of cadet barracks. Mrs. Frank was only moderately kind to her civilian adorer then, granting him only one dance at each hop, and going much with other men, but that dance was worth seeing.
Gresham, "I sometimes think that the final solution of this question will be the absorption of the negro into our race." "Never! never!" exclaimed Dr. Latrobe, vehemently. "It would be a death blow to American civilization." "Why, Doctor," said Dr. Latimer, "you Southerners began this absorption before the war.
After Jacques, the long-time friend of Pretty Pierre, came to Fort Latrobe, with his sulky eye and scrupulously neat attire, Blanche appeared to withdraw still more from public gaze, though no one saw any connection between these events. The girl also became fastidious in her dress, and lost all her former dash and smart aggression of manner.
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