The Marrow of Tradition

Dr. Price was not entirely at ease in his mind as the two doctors drove rapidly from the hotel to Major Carteret's. Himself a liberal man, from his point of view, he saw no reason why a colored doctor might not operate upon a white male child,-there are fine distinctions in the application of the color line,-but several other physicians had been invited, some of whom were men of old-fashioned notions, who might not relish such an innovation.