tion>George Cary Eggleston
Dorothy South
A Love Story of Virginia Just Before the War
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066136796
Table of Contents
VI “NOW YOU MAY CALL ME DOROTHY”
XIII THE “SONG BALLADS” OF DICK
XXI HOW A HIGH BRED DAMSEL CONFRONTED FATE AND DUTY
XXII THE INSTITUTION OF THE DUELLO
XXV AUNT POLLY’S VIEW OF THE RISKS
XXIX THE CORRESPONDENCE OF DOROTHY
XXXI THE VIEWS AND MOODS OF ARTHUR BRENT
XXXVI THE OLD DOROTHY AND THE NEW
I
TWO ENCOUNTERS
IT was a perfect day of the kind that Mr. Lowell has celebrated in song—“a day in June.” It was, moreover, a day glorified even beyond Mr. Lowell’s imagining, by the incomparable climate of south side Virginia.
A young man of perhaps seven and twenty, came walking with vigor down the narrow roadway, swinging a stick which he had paused by the wayside to cut. The road ran at this point through a luxuriantly growing woodland, with borders of tangled undergrowth and flowers on either side, and with an orchestra of bird performers all around. The road was a public highway, though it would never have been taken for such in any part of the world except in a south side county of
