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John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 2: the Background (search)
the thought of walking with him in open midday up Washington Street. I hoped I would not meet any of my acquaintances. I had, however, hardly turned into the street before I met the young lady who had expressed her wish as above stated. I am glad now to say that I did not skulk. I looked at her straight and bowed in my most gracious manner as if I were all right, while I saw by her look of regret that she thought me all wrong. It was, however, something like a cold sponge-bath,that Washington Street walk by the side of a black man,--rather terrible at the outset, but wonderfully warming and refreshing afterwards! I had literally jumped in medias res. But I did not hear until years afterwards, and a long time after Douglass had held office in Washington under Federal Government, and the slavery of his own race had been washed out in blood, what I was doing for him at the moment that as a friend I asked him to walk home with me to dinner. How little do we appreciate acts that see