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... Lucia or myself have cared to avail ourselves of its security. For Bob Randall, the trader there, would be sure to board us, and Bob Randall, one of the straightest, decentest white men that ever trod in shoe leather, would wonder what Mrs. Krause was doing in Jim Sherry's boat! He and I had never met, but he knew both Krause and Mrs. Krause. No, I thought, that ...

— The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton - 1902 • Louis Becke

... as mine! If she were only white, I would marry her at once, (if she would have me), for the sake of her gentle spirit alone,— ay, even though she were the child of a costermonger; but I cannot, I do not, love a savage, the daughter of a savage chief, with a skin the colour of shoe leather! No, it is impossible! and yet, I am in love with her spirit. I know it. I feel it. I never heard of such a strange thing before,—a man in love with a portion of a woman, and that the ...

— The Rover of the Andes - A Tale of Adventure on South America • R.M. Ballantyne