She was so in sympathy with this family that she felt in a hurry to get
to work, and so signalled a passing car to stop, and entered. It was
well filled, but two seats remaining unoccupied she seated herself in
one of them.
Presently a little colored girl came in and took the other. A high-bred
dame sitting next elevated her aristocratic nose and pulled her skirts
aside as if fearing contamination.
Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud; for the Lord hath spoken.
Jeremiah xiii, 15.
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! Proverbs xxx,
13.
Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord God of
Hosts. Jeremiah 1, 31.
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord.
Proverbs xvi, 5.
I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low
the haughtiness of the terrible. Isaiah xiii, 11.
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men
shall be bowed down. Isaiah ii, 11.
Why draw this color line so tightly? What of this outer covering? Have
not these people immortal souls which may be white as the whitest; and
in many cases, brilliant talents?
The Witch remembered a circumstance where a king of oratory, holding a
high official position, was debarred from sitting at table with a
ship's crew on account of this same color, which was only a heavier
shading; and is not all creation a matter of shadow and coloring?
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all
the face of the earth. Acts xvii, 26.
A shabbily dressed woman came in. The stamp of labor was on her
gloveless hands, and she looked weary, indeed. But no attention was
paid her whatever.
Then came two flashily attired females. No less than five gentlemen
arose to offer seats. Were they more in need of rest than this poor
laboring woman?
Ah, well! perhaps they were more heavily burdened with their follies
than she with her cares.
For once the Witch was too busy with many thoughts to concentrate her
mind on any individual in particular, and passed on and out of the car
to finish her day's work.