Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”

[…] ’tis justly to be apprehended, that persecutions will put a speedy period to the Protestant religion in the place of its nativity.

Kitt is both playing the wily temptress who lures Handy into the world of pleasure—and soulful musical creation—and playing herself, the temptuous Eartha Kitt, making her way into the hearts and heatedup imaginations of white and black theatergoers all over the country.

To shape my legs of an unequal size; / To disproportion me in every part.