A logical question to ask is, why she is strying to convince society that she is white and at the same time also half-and-half. Perhaps this is the prerogative of individuals who are mixed because at times they have the ability to chameleonize themselves.

Not many peeps here tonight, innit?

If the Authour will but persist in his assumption, the consequence shall make directly against him.

In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. […] Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.