The Flower of the Chapdelaines ...Scribner, 1918 - 339 Seiten |
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Seite 30 - I said if they would follow me to the top of the flight I would tell this marvel : what the learned believed those eternal lamps to be ; why some were out of view threefourths of the night, others only half, others not a quarter ; how a very few never sank out of sight at all except for daylight or clouds, and yet went round and round with all the others ; and why I called those the clock of heaven ; which gained, each night, four minutes, and only four, on the time we kept by the sun. " Pra-aise...
Seite 31 - ... stars around us was but our own daily and yearly turning, there would necessarily be two opposite points on our earth which would never move at all, and that any star directly in line with those two points would seem as still as they. " Like de p'int o' de spin'le on de spinnin'- wheel, Miss Maud? O, yass, I b'lieve I un'stand dat ; I un'stan' it some." I showed her the north star, and told her how to find it ; and then I took from my watch-guard a tiny compass and let her see how it forever...
Seite 26 - ... Miss Maud ; whatsomeveh come, and whensomeveh and howsomeveh de Lawd sen" it, ef us feels his ahm und" us, us ought to be ' shame ' not to be happy, oughtn't us?" All at once she sprang half up : "I tell you de Lawd neveh gi'n no niggeh de rights to snuggle down anywhuz an' fo'git de auction block ! " As suddenly the outbreak passed, yet as she settled down again her exaltation still showed through her fond smile. " You know what dat inqui'ance o' yone bring to my memb'ance? Dass ow ole Canaan...
Seite 213 - ... the hideous carnage of a Haytian revolution only by the iron hand of military suppression. To others it will appear that the feeble-handed old governor's rashly timorous proclamation was, after all, the true source of deliverance. Certainly, in any fair mind the story must at least raise the question whether even the most sudden and ill-timed concession of rights, if only backed by energetic police action, is not a prompter, surer cure for public disorder than whole batteries of artillery without...
Seite 29 - Auntie, was the information — bad news ?" "It wasn't good, my dear; I may tell you about it to-morrow." "Hadn't I better go back to father at once ?" "Oh, my child, not for our sake; if you're not too lonesome we'd rather keep you. Let me see; has Mingo ever danced for you ? Why, tell Sidney to make Mingo come dance for you." Mingo came; his leaps, turns, postures, steps, and outcries were a most laughable wonder, and I should have begged for more than I did, but I saw that it was a part of Sidney's...
Seite 115 - ... mismo negro se manifiesta totalmente en contra. Tal vez como testimonio de que la misma gente de color excluía esta posibilidad, considerada como la amenaza más peligrosa que encerraba una supuesta igualdad racial durante los años en que Cable recupera esta narración a principios del siglo XX: "De same Lawd what give...
Seite 213 - Certainly the question remains, whether even the most sudden and ill-timed concession of rights, if only backed by energetic police action, is not a prompter, surer cure for public disorder than whole batteries of artillery without the concession of rights. I believe the most blundering effort for the prompt undoing of a grievous wrong is safer than the shrewdest or strongest effort for its continuance.
Seite 200 - Da what we done come fur, to tell Mis's Paula not be frightened." Tom staid but a moment and was off again. "Rachel," said Dora's grandmother, " you've been stealing." " Well, Mis's Paula ! ain't I gwine hab my sheah w'en dem knock de head out dem hogsitt an...
Seite 162 - Ovide tells me the negroes never wanted negro supremacy. I wonder if that's so. They were often, he says, madly foolish and corrupt; yet their fundamental lawmaking was mostly good. I know the State's constitution was; it was ahead of the times
Seite 135 - For freight or passage apply to the Master on Board, or to WFA RUCKER. January 24th, 1838. On Stile. At the Stores of Mr. J. Batman, at low prices, for cash. Taylor's Brown Stout in hhds. Dunbar and Sons' Bottled Ale in three-dozen cases.
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