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" I owe you nothing," he went on, "and expect nothing of you; and it would be no more than justice if I should avenge upon you my mother's wrongs and my own. But still I hate to shoot you; I have never yet taken human life — for I did not kill the old... "
The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An Anthology - Page 247
edited by - 2006 - 328 pages
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Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line

Charles W. Chesnutt - 2000 - 308 pages
...mother's wrongs and my own. But still I hate to shoot you; I have never yet taken human life — for I did not kill the old captain. Will you promise to...die." He raised his arm to fire, when there was a flash — a report from the passage behind him. His arm fell heavily at his side, and the pistol dropped...
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