Zhang Xiaogang Two Sisters painting

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they'd saved each other's lives more than once, and had become fast friends despite their difference in race.
"But that'sall we ever was, was pals," he insisted. "Old Black George and me (I used to call him Old Black George, despite he weren't old), we went through thick and thin together 'fore we parted company. I guess no boy ever had a better pal: that's why I bust out laughin' when they say I don't like darkies! But friends isall, and them smart-alecks that claim we wasfunny for each other -- I'd like to horsewhip 'em!"
I remarked that I too had been fortunate enough to have a Frumentian friend by the name of George. Max considered his sarsaparilla.
Equally libelous, Greene assured us, was the gossip that he'd taken a daughter of his fellow-fugitive into the bush for immoral purposes: the truth was that an influential white lady had arranged to have Old Black George paroled into the custody of his family, all of whom were domestic workers in the boarding-school she operated; only his parole hinged on the condition that this particular daughter, who had taken to a lewd course of