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Mr. Jack's views are respecting Riel. His mother, that is the rebel's grandmother, was a Franco-Montagnaise Metis. From this it will be seen that instead of being a "half breed," Louis Riel is only one-eighth Indian, or is, if we might use the phrase employed in describing a mixture of Ethiopian and Caucasian blood, an Octoroon.
"Certainly, sir," replied the old gentleman. His visitor accordingly began by telling of Mr. Royal's having formed one of those quadroon alliances so common in New Orleans; of his having died insolvent; and of his two handsome octoroon daughters having been claimed as slaves by his creditors. "What the deuce do you suppose I care about his octoroon daughters?" interrupted Mr. Bell, impatiently.
The opposition express great love for white blood. Will they let a mulatto vote half the time, a quadroon three-fourths, and an octoroon seven-eighths of the time? If not, why not? Will they enslave seven-eighths of a white man because one-eighth is not Caucasian? Is this democratic? Shall not the majority seven control the minority one? Out on such "democracy."
And that Maitland, why did he not obey the only good sentiment with which his compatriots are inspired, the aversion to negro blood, an aversion which would prevent them from doing what he has done from marrying an octoroon? If the young woman knows of it, it is terrible, and if she does not it is still more terrible.
His supper tray had not been removed. He lit a cigar and picked up a book it was Herbert Spencer, and he was soon interested. Ten minutes later an octoroon house-girl, with dark Creole eyes, and bright ribbons in her hair, came in to remove the supper dishes. She wore a bright-colored green gown, cut low.
"I don't know," demurred the octoroon, with her faint doubtful smile. "Persons don't welcome beggars very cordially." "If all beggars were so charming " Apparently he couldn't escape banalities. But Cissie interrupted whatever speech he meant to make, with a return of her almost painful seriousness. "I really came to ask you to help me, Peter."
All at once he said, "Fitzgerald, did you ever find those handsome octoroon girls?" "What octoroon girls?" inquired the other. "O, you disremember them, do you?" rejoined he. "I mean how did that bargain turn out that you made with Royal's creditors?
Or was it perhaps the third, less pretty but more vivid and animated, who sat behind the tea-tray, and mimicked so expressively a soldier shouldering his rifle, and another falling dead, in her effort to ask us "when the dreadful war would be over"? Perhaps ... unless, indeed, it were the handsome octoroon, slightly older than the others, but even more richly dressed, so free and noble in her movements, and treated by the others with such friendly deference.
He sprang to his feet, and we all know he is a spry fellow, and pitched into me as though I had tried to murder him." "You lie!" yelled the octoroon, with a savage oath. "You did try to murder me!" Griffin leaped from his recumbent position, and, foaming with rage, drew a bowie-knife from his pocket, the long blade of which he threw open with a jerk of his hand.
Then it becomes simply another convention, or rather conventional method of expressing the octoroon kind of truths with which the highly civilised races feed themselves, as fastidious ladies eat cakes and bread from which all but the smallest particle of nourishment has been extracted.
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