The distinguished lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston was born in 1895, eight months before the Supreme Court's "separate but equal" ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson.
She wouldn't overlook a man of marriageable age, from ginger-whiskered old Frank Kennedy, who was Suellen's beau, on down to shy, quiet, blushing Charles Hamilton, Melanie's brother.
It's bad enough for Ashley to be marrying the Hamilton child, but for Honey to be marrying that pale-looking Charles Hamilton--"
"Mrs. Charles Hamilton--one hundred and fifty dollars--in gold."
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