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Read Ebook: The mill of silence by Capes Bernard
Font size: Background color: Text color: Add to tbrJar First Page Next PageEbook has 3789 lines and 117943 words, and 76 pagesTHE BORDERLAND I ON JOURNEYS THROUGH THE STATES 3 II A BALTIMORE EVENING 13 V TERRAPIN AND THINGS 44 VI DOUGHOREGAN MANOR AND THE CARROLLS 53 X HARPER'S FERRY AND JOHN BROWN 97 XX IDIOMS AND ARISTOCRACY 214 THE HEART OF THE SOUTH XXX POLITICS, A NEWSPAPER AND ST. CECILIA 326 XL THE ROAD TO ARCADY 440 XLI A MISSISSIPPI TOWN 447 XLII OLD TALES AND A NEW GAME 458 XLIV THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND HIM 474 XLV VICKSBURG OLD AND NEW 482 XLVI SHREDS AND PATCHES 494 L MODERN MEMPHIS 535 FARTHEST SOUTH LI BEAUTIFUL SAVANNAH 553 LII MISS "JAX" AND SOME FLORIDA GOSSIP 572 LIV ASSORTED AND RESORTED FLORIDA 595 LV A DAY IN MONTGOMERY 603 LVI THE CITY OF THE CREOLE 619 LX FINALE 675 "Railroad tickets!" said the baggageman with exaggerated patience 8 Can most travellers, I wonder, enjoy as I do a solitary walk, by night, through the mysterious streets of a strange city? 17 Coming out of my slumber with the curious and unpleasant sense of being stared at, I found his eyes fixed upon me 24 Mount Vernon Place is the centre of Baltimore 32 If she is shopping for a dinner party, she may order the costly and aristocratic diamond-back terrapin, sacred in Baltimore as is the Sacred Cod in Boston 48 Doughoregan Manor--the house was a buff-colored brick 65 I began to realize that there was no one coming 80 Harper's Ferry is an entrancing old town; a drowsy place piled up beautifully yet carelessly upon terraced roads clinging to steep hillsides 100 "What's the matter with him?" I asked, stopping 117 When I came down, dressed for riding, my companion was making a drawing; the four young ladies were with him, none of them in riding habits 124 Claymont Court is one of the old Washington houses 132 Chatham, the old Fitzhugh house, now the residence of Mark Sullivan 148 Monticello stands on a lofty hilltop, with vistas, between trees of neighboring valleys, hills, and mountains 157 Like Venice, the University of Virginia should first be seen by moonlight 168 The Piedmont Hunt Race Meet 189 The Southern negro is the world's peasant supreme 200 The Country Club of Virginia, out to the west of Richmond 216 Judge Crutchfield 228 Negro women squatting upon boxes in old shadowy lofts stem the tobacco leaves 237 The Judge: "What did he do, Mandy?" 244 Some genuine old-time New York ferryboats help to complete the illusion that Norfolk is New York 253 "The Southern statesman who serves his section best, serves his country best" 280 St. Philip's is the more beautiful for the open space before it 300 Opposite St. Philip's, a perfect example of the rude architecture of an old French village 305 In the doorway and gates of the Smyth house, in Legar? Street, I was struck with a Venetian suggestion 316 Nor is the Charleston background a mere arras of recollection 320 Charleston has a stronger, deeper-rooted city entity than all the cities of the Middle West rolled into one 328 The interior is the oldest looking thing in the United States--Goose Creek Church 344 Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page |
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