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Clem Brazenstar insisted that if they spoke only of these trivialities, if they did not mention the more lusty violence in the South, such as a returned Negro soldier's having his eyes gouged out with a policeman's night-stick, their new white friend would be bored, and Clem's own virility as a Southerner would be slighted.
They all laughed again, but now Neil shuddered.