so handsome and so elegant. He thought how she would complete a house‚ÅÝ‚Äîsuch a home as his prospective four or six thousand dollars a year could easily purchase. She saw him surveying her, and she smiled at him.
“I find but one fault with you,” she said.
He stammered for a pretty speech, but did not find it before she continued:
‚ÄúYes‚ÅÝ‚Äîyou are so delightfully primitive; you will not use the world as it is but insist on acting as if it were something else.‚Äù
“I am not sure I understand.”
‚ÄúWell, there is the wife of my Judge: she is a fact in my world; in yours she is a problem to be stated, straightened, and solved. If she had come to you, as she did to me yesterday, with her theory that all that Southern Negroes needed was to learn how to make good servants and lay brick‚ÅÝ‚Äî‚Äù