They brought with them the unconquerable aversion to negro blood and that wonderful keenness in discovering it, even in the most infinitesimal degree, which distinguishes real Yankees.

Little Lydia Chapron, having been entered as French, they at first hesitated in the face of a suspicion speedily converted into a certainty and that certainty into an aversion, which they could not conceal.

They would not have been children had they not been unfeeling.

They, therefore, began to offer poor Lydia petty affronts.

Convents and colleges resemble other society.