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XXV. The Campaign

so now in their last days a sense of the power of men, as set over against the immensity and force of their surroundings, became real to her. She had begun to read of the lives and doing of those called great, and in her mind a plan was forming. She saw herself standing dim within the shadows, directing the growing power of a man: a man who would be great as the world counted greatness, rich, high in position, powerful‚ÅÝ‚Äîwonderful because his face was black. He would never see her; never know how she worked and planned, save perhaps at last, in that supreme moment as she passed, her soul would cry to his, ‚ÄúRedeemed!‚Äù And he would understand.

Todo esto pensaba y tejía; no de forma clara y definida, sino en grandes y borrosas nubes de pensamientos sobre cosas, mientras decía lentamente:

„Debería tener una gran posición para esto.“

—Pues claro —convino la señora Vanderpool, y luego, con curiosidad—: ¿El qué?

Zora lo pensó. «Los negros —dijo— han sido interventores del Tesoro y registradores de la propiedad aquí en Washington, y Douglas fue mariscal; pero quiero que Bles...» Se detuvo y volvió a empezar. «Esos puestos no son lo suficientemente importantes para el señor Alwyn; debería tener un cargo tan importante que a los negros ni se les pasaría por la cabeza volver a abandonar su partido».

La señora ¬ÝVanderpool

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