human
Come; the reporters will soon be here. Let us go and see after Marguerite.
gpt
Do you think, one asked of the janitress,
human
No. I think she must have guessed those men's errand, and her eye met the eye of some one who knew her.
gpt
But what of that?
human
She is 'colored.'
gpt
Impossible!
human
I tell you, yes!
gpt
Why, I thought her as pure German as her name.
human
No, the mixture is there; though the only trace of it is on her lips. Her mother--she is dead now--was a beautiful quadroon. A German sea-captain loved her. The law stood between them. He opened a vein in his arm, forced in some of her blood, went to court, swore he had African blood, got his license, and married her. Marguerite is engaged to be married to a white man, a gentleman who does not know this. It was like life and death, so to speak, for her not to let those men turn her out of here.
gpt
Radical government was doomed, but not dead. A few weeks after the scene just described the evicted girls were reinstated. A long term of suspense followed. The new year became the old and went out. Twice this happened. In 1877 there were two governors and two governments in Louisiana. In sight from the belvedere of the