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And she was interesting, an odd confusion of wit and intense earnestness; a vivid and remarkable person.
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she regarded with an astonishment that had in it a mild degree of amusement the violence of the feelings which it stirred in her.
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How stupid she had been ever to have thought that she could marry and perhaps have children in a land where every dark child was handicapped at the start by the shroud of color! She saw, suddenly, the giving birth to little, helpless, unprotesting Negro children as a sin, an unforgivable outrage. More black folk to suffer indignities. More dark bodies for mobs to lynch.
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She laughed and the ringing bells in her laugh had a hard metallic sound.
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Manners were something that people who don't have, but admire, resent not having.
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