This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...Baldwin County created a lively interest, and the etiquette of mourning, which needs must be observed, only aggravated the situation. Gradually, however, more authentic and definite information began to attach itself to the meager facts that society had gathered. A gentleman had met the lady near ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...Baldwin County created a lively interest, and the etiquette of mourning, which needs must be observed, only aggravated the situation. Gradually, however, more authentic and definite information began to attach itself to the meager facts that society had gathered. A gentleman had met the lady near Woodhaven, taking the horseback exercise that her pale cheeks demanded. She was "spirituelle"; her eyes were "superb"; her sad smile was " ravishing." A lady met with like good fortune, and, emboldened by superior age and the consciousness of a leading social position, introduced herself, and gained a few moments' conversation. She found her vivacious when aroused, and her voice was "as the music in the pines." A visitor who called to see Major Worthington, some six weeks later, caught a glimpse of a delicate foot pressed against the soft pedal of the old piano; it was exquisitely modeled, and the plaintive nocturne into which the fingers strayed was as "the rippling moonlit waters in a summer night." At the end of two months Milledgeville was prepared for anything. One day when noon had paralyzed action of every description, from legislative to mercantile, and the doorways and shady corners were dark with idlers, the sound of hoofs smote the air, and hundreds of eyes caught the vision of a slender, flying bay mare bearing a girlish form. The close-fitting black habit reduced her figure to its minimum; into the pale cheeks had come a faint glow; the gloved hands were small. She sat her saddle so easily, so steadily, so nonchalantly, that the spirited animal seemed entirely uncontrolled as she passed. Behind her, upon the great roan recognized at once as Major Worthiiigton's, was a little...
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1899 Edwards, Harry Stillwell HIS DEFENSE AND OTHER STORIES NY: Century Co, 1899 217pp illus Kemble 8vo illus cloth small chip in upper edge of front cover, slight signs of wear on a couple of corners, else fine bright copy.
