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Ebook has 3789 lines and 117943 words, and 76 pages

THE 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

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