In a sort of clear moment he saw that he could not keep Cissie in such a sty as this.

She would surely charge Cissie with being a thief and a drab, and all the announcements of engagements that Peter could make would never induce the old woman to soften her abuse.

It seemed best to marry Cissie at once and go North.

The verjuice which old Rose had sprinkled over Peter and Cissie by calling them "he-nigger" and "she-nigger" somehow minimized them, animalized them in the old lawyer's imagination.

It might look as ifThen the thought came that, as a neighbor, he should stop and tell Cissie of Tump's misfortune.

As he stood looking out at the window, pressing Cissie to him, he wondered, when he reached Chicago, if he could ever make Farquha