[page 139] Go on, take it off, the first girl directed Celia. We want to see your hair. […] Oh look at that, the first girl shrieked. She's a red nigger. [page 142] Ah knows wat she is. She's jess' ah red nigger tryin' to look white. In the first scene, two white girls are trying to determine the race of another girl (Celia). They remove her hat, revealing her hair and thus her mixed-race heritage. In the second scene, two Black people are discussing the same issue.

With its beadies on him from out in the corridor and its massive sneakers upon the wafer thin yielding (he yell'd!) glass of the compartment door.

At the party he behaved like a real horse's ass.

an unmakeable contract in bridge