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The Sable Cloud

CHAPTER X
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In saying this, I refer both to this world and the next'.

I need not say, he is an enemy to the slave-trade.
"A missionary who had spent much time among the Zulu people, was appealed to by a zealous anti-slavery person to commiserate our slaves as being so much worse off than the Zulus.

'Madam,' said he, 'if our Zulus were in the condition of your slaves, eternity would not be long enough to give thanks.' "Mrs.North," said I, "you will not impute it to mere gallantry when I appeal to you if we may not generally measure the refinement and elevation of society by the position of woman, and by the sentiments and manners of the other sex with regard to yours.

The deference, the delicate attentions, the gentleness, the refinement of behavior, in word and act, which you inspire, are both the means and the evidence of the highest cultivation.

In public and in private life, in assemblies, public conveyances, at table, around the evening lamp, in all the intercourse of the family, the susceptibility of impression, the restraints and the chastised utterances, in word and action, of husbands, fathers, brothers and friends, which are due to the presence of woman, are a correct gauge of civilization and refinement." "All right," said Mr.North, bowing very politely to his wife.
"Nowhere," said I, "do we see this more conspicuously than in Southern society.


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