526 "The Wife of His Youth" by Charles Chesnutt
The History of Literature
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The Blue Veins
Mr. rider was a single man in the early days of his connection with the blue veins he had been regarded as quite a catch and young ladies and their mothers had maneuvered with much ingenuity to capture him. Not however until mrs. molly dixon visited groveland had any woman ever made him wish to change his condition to that of a married man okay we'll pause there m Molly dixon we're going to get to her the paragraph ends with a tease he wanted to marry molly d Dixon but first let me say where we are in the story it's not hard to hear the echoes of white people and what they've intended to be a compliment for years oh this guy this
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