흥미진진! 전혀 기대하지 못한 가슴 아픈 스토리!
The only person who wasn‘t happy with it was Miss Katherine. She‘d run out of things needing to be fixed.
She sat at her desk one afternoon, listening to the pitter-patter of the rain on the roof. No water leaked into the classroom, except for the few drops that came from her eyes.
"Onions! Hot sweet onions!" Sam called, out on the street. She ran to him. She wanted to throw her arms around him but couldn‘t bring herself to do it. Instead she hugged Mary Lou‘s neck.
"Is something wrong?" he asked her.
"Oh, Sam," she said. "My heart is breaking."
"I can fix that," said Sam.
She turned to him.
He took hold of both of her hands, and kissed her.
Because of the rain, there was nobody else out on the street. Even if there was, Katherine and Sam wouldn‘t have noticed. They were lost in their own world.
At that moment, however, Hattie Parker stepped out of the general store. They didn‘t see her, but she saw them. She pointed her quivering finger in their direction and whispered, "God will punish you!" - P111
"I always get drunk before a hanging."
"A hanging? Who-"
"It‘s against the law for a Negro to kiss a white woman." - P113
"Well, then you‘ll have to hang me, too," said Katherine.
"Because I kissed him back."
"It ain‘t against the law for you to kiss him," the sheriff ex-plained. "Just for him to kiss you."
"We‘re all equal under the eyes of God," she declared.
The sheriff laughed. "Then if Sam and I are equal, why won‘t you kiss me?" He laughed again. "I‘ll make you a deal. One sweet kiss, and I won‘t hang your boyfriend. I‘ll just runhim out of town."
Miss Katherine jerked her hand free. As she hurried to the door, she heard the sheriff say, "The law will punish Sam.
And God will punish you." - P114
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