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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 17: White women. (search)
ll take care of you — there! A girl goes into a shop in Montgomery Street to buy gloves. What size? asks the young fellow. My real size is sixes, the damsel smiles, but you see my hand will bear squeezing, --and the bashful fellow fetches her a pair of five and a half. A damsel of San Francisco reads in one of Helen M. Coke's rhapsodies that kisses on the brow make the richest diadem for a woman. Guess that sort of kisses is rather thin, sneers the girl, and I doubt whether Nellie Coke herself likes them very much. So runs the moral to an end. Guess my husband's got to look after me, and make himself agreeable to me, if he can, says a pretty young woman, in a tone of banter, but a tone that carries much meaning, if he don't, there's plenty will. Divorce is cheap and easily obtained. Sone legal firms are known for their alacrity in getting through such troubles. Residence not required, is one of the hints thrown out in circulars and advertisements to parties ab
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 34: the three races. (search)
humour in their talk. When you get to Austin as masters what will you do? Do? laughs one of them. We mean to have a good time. We shall revise the new Scalawag Constitution, and give the poor down-trodden Whites a chance. And then? Guess then, he laughs still more, we'll fill our trunks. What should we go to Austin for? You see these gentlemen. Every man among the lot has an empty box in the luggage van. Hish! When we come back these boxes will be full. Why else is Coke made Governor, De Berry Secretary of State? Have not we as much right to rob the Treasury as those scalawags? On my return from Austin, I bet you'll not be able to lift this trunk! We laugh and tell some jest about our way of doing things in London when one party is going out and the other party coming in. A fellow with the manner of a ranting preacher creeps behind and whispers in my ear, You smile, Sir; by the eternal heavens it's true. Do you expect to have any more Black troubl