Read "The Jelly-Bean"

Several generations before Jim was born his family had been ____


Shunned

Poor Whites

Wealthy

Happy

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"Most of the men knew him, condescendingly; he tipped his hat to three or four girls. That was all. "


"They would all be there — the old crowd, the crowd to which, by right of the white house, sold long since, and the portrait of the officer in gray over the mantel, Jim should have belonged. "


"‘Daggone!’ he muttered, half aloud. "


"But that crowd had grown up together into a tight little set as gradually as the girls’ dresses had lengthened inch by inch, as definitely as the boys’ trousers had dropped suddenly to their ankles. "


"And to that society of first names and dead puppy loves Jim was an outsider — a running mate of poor whites. "