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A Sappho of Green Springs

CHAPTER VI
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And we want an end to this roping-in of white folks to suit your little game; we want an end to your trying to mix your nigger blood with any one here, and we intend to stop it.

We draw the line at the major." Lashed as she had been by those words apparently out of all semblance of her former social arrogance, a lower and more stubborn resistance seemed to have sprung up in her, as she sat sideways, watching him with her set smile and contracting eyes.
"Ah," she said dryly, "so SHE IS HERE.

I thought so.

Which of you is it, eh?
It's a good spec--Mallory's a rich man.

She's not particular." The man had stopped as if listening, his head turned towards the road.
Then he turned carelessly, and facing her again, waved his hand with a gesture of tired dismissal, and said, "Go! You'll find your driver over there by the tool-shed.


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