The Real America in Romance: With Reading Courses, Being a Complete and Authentic History of America from the Time of Columbus to the Present Day, Volume 8
The Real America in Romance: With Reading Courses, Being a Complete and Authentic History of America from the Time of Columbus to the Present Day, Volume 8
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...when he learned that it could not be gratified; but he said no more to his friend on the subject. An event happened a few weeks later which brought about what Noah desired. Mrs. Wilbcr-force of Williamsburg gave a social party at her elegant home, to which there were invited all the best people of the village ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...when he learned that it could not be gratified; but he said no more to his friend on the subject. An event happened a few weeks later which brought about what Noah desired. Mrs. Wilbcr-force of Williamsburg gave a social party at her elegant home, to which there were invited all the best people of the village and surrounding country Social events like this were quite common, even in the early days of Virginia, and Mrs. Wilberforce took the lead in society. Her house was one of the most elegant in Virginia, and, on the evening in question, the spacious parlors and drawing-rooms were all aglow with light. Negro servants in livery were hastening hither and thither making everything ready. In the long dining-room were great tables groaning with good things. From out the casement on the wintry air floated the softest strains of music. The night was clear and cold. The snow lay on the ground with a crust frozen on the top. Sleighs loaded with merry people were driven to the Wilberforce mansion, and a constant stream of gayly dressed gentlemen and ladies were entering. An assembly of gentlemen and ladies in the old colonial days, before the decay of the picturesque, was a grand sight. It was in the age of periwigs, velvet coats, ruffled shirts, knee breeches and gaiters. It was an age when the coats were of any color one might choose, and there appeared under the lamplight or fluttered in the evening breeze all the varied colors and hues of the kaleidoscope. Negro slaves were kept busy heaping on great logs of wood, and roaring fires made the rooms comfortable. Outside, the night air was cold, and from a hundred chimneys the soft blue smoke floated away in the darkness. Noah Stevens was an invited guest at Mrs. Wilberforce's ball, and when the evening...
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