Beth quickly signs to her and points at Cassie. Summer laughs. I haven't heard her laugh before. It's an interesting laugh, somewhere between a gurgle and a chortle. A churgle? A gortle? I'm reminded of when she was with her friends at the cafe and the strange noises they made.

[…] at rare intervals, when the sun broke forth wholly free, the glacier was seen from shore to shore with a bright array of encompassing mountains partly revealed, wearing the clouds as garments, while the prairie bloomed and sparkled with irised light from myriads of washed crystals.

Well, any way, Doctor, we will make an appointment for a whole day here next spring ; we will botanize, herbarize and naturalize to our hearts' content, from morn till night."

Once we decide that his presence is temporary, we shall all, in South and North, work together not only to educate the black man for his destiny, but also to prepare the South gradually for a monoracial rather than a biracial civilization.