Note 23 — Chapter III · ETON
Reading edition
At a distribution of prizes at one of the public schools at Paris, as boy after boy was brought up, he said, “Continuez, jeune homme! Premier prix de mathématiques, très bien. Continuez, jeune homme.” At last a Haytian boy was brought up to him. “Ah, c’est vous le nègre. Continuez, jeune homme, continuez!”