526 "The Wife of His Youth" by Charles Chesnutt
The History of Literature
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Queen Guinevere
Mr. rider's trying to find the right poetry for the occasion he lands on tenison of all people his favorite poet and considers some lines about the fair pail maiden which ultimately does not quite fit. A black woman straight out of central casting a bit of the old plantation life come to life appears at his door could almost be his conscience the party's tamped down coming to him as a vision. i'm going to speak in a bit of dialect to give you the flavor this is how chestnut is written and i'll try to do it without sounding like some old racist disney character chestnut clearly wants to draw the distinction here she's coming from the old world the south the
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