AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING
AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING - E. Pauline Johnson Johnson, Emily Pauline, author and performer; b. 10 March 1861 on the Six Nations Reserve, Upper Canada, daughter of George Henry Martin Johnson and Emily Susanna Howells; d. unmarried 7 March 1913 in Vancouver. They account for it by the fact that I am a Redskin, but I am something else, too. I am a woman. He imposes these prejudices on Laurence, convincing him not to marry Esther without a thought how Esther might feel. Father Paul even doesn’t regard her as a person, much less a woman with thoughts and feelings and intelligence. How ironic that he teaches love and acceptance on one hand and yet does not practice what he preaches. Father Paul is also a coward because only a coward keeps his true feelings to himself and presents a false front to the people he secretly loathes. He hides behind his religious beliefs so he does not have to admit that his sole desire is to manipulate and