We have here what you may call an armed aristocracy.

The class over which these instruments of main force are held is chosen for its servility, ignorance, and cowardice; hence, indolence in the ruling class.

When a man's social or civil standing is not dependent on his knowing how to read, he is not likely to become a scholar." "Of coze," said Aurora, with a pensive respiration, "I thing id is doze climade," and the apothecary stopped, as a man should who finds himself unloading large philosophy in a little parlor.
"I thing, me, dey hought to pud doze quadroon' free ?" It was Clotilde who spoke, ending with the rising inflection to indicate the tentative character of this daringly premature declaration.
Frowenfeld did not answer hastily.
"The quadroons," said he, "want a great deal more than mere free papers can secure them.

Emancipation before the law, though it may be a right which man has no right to withhold, is to them little more than a mockery until they achieve emancipation in the minds and good will of the people--'the people,' did I say?
I mean the ruling class." He stopped again.

One must inevitably feel a little silly, setting up tenpins for ladies who are too polite, even if able, to bowl them down.
Aurora and the visitor began to speak simultaneously; both apologized, and Aurora said: "'Sieur Frowenfel', w'en I was a lill girl,"-- and Frowenfeld knew that he was going to hear the story of Palmyre.