Negotiations were treated less as a means of reconciling our ideals with our interests than as a trap to entangle us in the endless quarrels of a morally questionable world.
It HAS been like a lovers' tiff without the love-quickly tamped down but with none of the kissing and making up, and no soothing of the underlying rage.
The Rankin "boys", only two years apart in age, had once been inseparable, but had fallen out over a racehorse they had inherited from their widower father.
White, mulatto, and negro boys and girls were always there waiting their turns to bring water, resting, trading playthings, quarrelling, fighting, skylarking.