The Second Wooing of Salina Sue, And Other Stories
The book The Second Wooing of Salina Sue, And Other Stories was written by author Stuart, Ruth Mcenery, 1856-1917 Here you can read free online of The Second Wooing of Salina Sue, And Other Stories book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Second Wooing of Salina Sue, And Other Stories a good or bad book?
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Indeed, when she had learn- ed more of the city's ways, she even ventured occasionally to take the steam-car, which carried her down to Tivoli Circle, where she peddled her wares to greater advantage, and 119 THE SECOND WOOING OF SALINA SUE more than once she even had the temerity to appear in Canal Street. Here, sitting flat upon the "banquette," she would brace herself against the outer wall of one of the stores, and calmly display her wares in an open basket upon her lap, quite as if she wer...e one of the '* regulars,'* and as a result was heartily despised by all of this proud class — ^which is to say, by the sev- eral eminently respectable Creole negroes whom every one knew, and who would be missed by the best people any day they failed to appear at their several stations with their baskets of pralines and peppers. They were perhaps righteous enough in their in- dignation, for, as they said, if any "slave- nigger" could come in her old rags, such as Egypt wore, and thus degrade their callings, what would be the use of trying to keep up old standards ?
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