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WOMEN OF DISTINCTION.
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CHAPTER XCVI.

MADAM SELIKA.

As Afro-Americans there are many conditions and circumstances that tend to make life dreary and discouraging. Some of these difficulties are the results of our own life and thoughts, and constitute the foe within us;

MADAM SELIKA.

some are also due to circumstances over which we have but little or no control, and constitute the foe from without.

After all that seems dark and burdensome along our pathway we should feel that our condition to-day is far