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think that color makes any difference, Mr. Hawkins? I used to be so
prejudiced against color."
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Did you? I never was. I used to think my old mammy was handsome."
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How interesting your life must have been! I should like to hear about
it."
Washington was about settling himself into his narrative style,
when Mrs. Gen. McFingal caught his eye.
"Have you been at the Capitol to-day, Mr. Hawkins?"
Washington had not. "Is anything uncommon going on?"
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They say it was very exciting. The Alabama business you know.
Gen. Sutler, of Massachusetts, defied England, and they say he wants
war."
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He wants to make himself conspicuous more like," said Laura.
He always, you have noticed, talks with one eye on the gallery, while
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the other is on the speaker."
"Well, my husband says, its nonsense to talk of war, and wicked.
He knows what war is. If we do have war, I hope it will be for the
patriots of Cuba. Don't you think we want Cuba, Mr. Hawkins?"
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