Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 444
once saidthat the saddest sight he ever witnessed in hislife was a class of negro girls in a Georgia schoolstudying Greek. He believed that the best edu-cation for his people was one that would traintheir hands as well as their minds and fit them would keep them what they had always been—hewers of… … Marie-Laure sat in the doorway of the littlepeasant cottage where she was living with hergrandfather and grandmother; that is, the familyoccupied half of the cottage and their cattle theother half. Marie-Laures head was bent low over her em-broidery. She smiled now and then as sheselected a length…
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