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Holding income constant , the states with the highest percentages of African Americans are the least generous to the poor . That he was overcome by the wine just swallowed , was the idea which most readily presented itself ; and , rather with a view to the preservation of my own character in the eyes of my associates , than from any less interested motive , I was about to insist , peremptorily , upon a discontinuance of the play , when some expressions at my elbow from among the company , and an ejaculation evincing utter despair on the part of Glendinning , gave me to understand that I had effected his total ruin under circumstances which , rendering him an object for the pity of all , should have protected him from the ill offices even of a fiend . At the hearin ' of this , ye may swear , though , I was as mad as a grasshopper , but I remimbered that I was Sir Pathrick O'Grandison , Barronitt , and that it was n't althegither gentaal to lit the anger git the upper hand o ' the purliteness , so I made light o ' the matter and kipt dark , and got quite sociable wid the little chap , and afther a while what did he do but ask me to go wid him to the widdy 's , saying he wud give me the feshionable inthroduction to her leddyship . The idea of its being gold never entered their brains , of course ; how could such a wild fancy have entered it ? Indeed , had the car and contents been three times heavier than they were , I should not have been at all uneasy .