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You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same."

But here in New Orleans she could see how the eyes of other women followed him and how they fluttered when he bent over their hands. The realization that other women were at-tracted by her husband, and perhaps envied her, made her suddenly proud to be seen by his side.

"The negroes were on top and behind them were the Yankee bayonets.
She could be killed, she could be raped and, very probably, nothing would ever be done about it.
And anyone who avenged her would be hanged by the Yankees, hanged without benefit of trial by judge and jury.

"We'll do something about it if it means another war.
Soon we'll be having nigger judges, nigger legislators - black apes out of the jun-gle-"

"Free issue niggers are something else, and a good whipping would do some of them a lot of good."

"The more I see of emanci-pation the more criminal I think it is. It's just ruined the darkies.
Thousands of them aren't working at all and the ones we can get to work at the mill are so lazy and shiftless they aren't worth having.
And if you so much as swear at them, much less hit them a few licks for the good of their souls, the Freedmen's Bur-eau is down on you like a duck on a June bug."

But when she was rich-oh, what a beautiful warm-ing thought that was! when she was rich, she wouldn't stand anything she didn't like, do without anything she desired or even be polite to people un-less they pleased her.