They flew wide at our approach, but to be shut with speed when my face was seen; hands were cordially extended, and drawn back as from a loathsome contact when mine went to meet them.

In brief, we were outlawed, ostracised, sacrificed on the altar of this devilish American prejudice,--wholly American, for it is found nowhere else in the world,--I for my color, she for connecting her fate with mine.
"I was so held as to be unable to return at once, and she would not leave me.

Then my brother drooped more and more.

His disease needed the brightest and most cheerful influences.

The social and moral atmosphere stifled him.