Vulgar words in The Rose of Old St. Louis (Page 1)
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But it was moonlight and we rode through a beautiful country dotted with royal châteaus,--the birthplaces of illustrious kings,--and I had my thoughts, and Clotilde and Cæsar had each other: for Cæsar was the first of her kind Clotilde had seen since coming to France, and much as she might enjoy the attentions of footmen in gorgeous liveries, after all they were only "white trash," and she loved best her own color.
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They all stuck to their text,--the embarkation of Clotilde at four o'clock on the afternoon previous in Paris,--and Clotilde was as stupid as heart could desire, professing absolute ignorance of her mistress's plans, and knowing only that she herself was being sent home to America because she was homesick; and with a negress's love of gratuitous insult when she thinks she is safe in offering it, she added in her creole dialect: "De Lord knows, I's sick o' white trash anyhow.