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-"Considering the British, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and their excursions in the shadier portions of their empires and the handmaidens they brought home, considering the wanderings of the Moors southward in Africa and north in Europe, considering human nature on warm evenings in the South, it is probable that every 'white person' in Europe and the Americas, from British dukes up to Georgia politicians, has some trace of 'Negro blood."
It was Clement Brazenstar holding forth, back in town and staying at the Woolcapes'. Neil was delighted to see that dark clown face again, but at this outrageous theory, he was offended. What would happen to the whole careful structure of his unhappiness if Vestal and John William Prutt and Wilbur Feathering and Rodney Aldwick could also be denounced as "colored"?