She was more like her father than her younger sisters, for Carreen, who had been born Caroline Irene, was delicate and dreamy, and Suellen, christened ...
She was his oldest child and, now that Gerald knew there would be no more sons to follow the three who lay in the family burying ground, he had drifte ...
It was a secret he would never learn, for everyone from Ellen down to the stupidest field hand was in a tacit and kindly conspiracy to keep him believ ...
That everyone who met him did discover his kindly heart within five minutes was unknown to him; and his vanity would have suffered tremendously if he ...
He could not bear to see a slave pouting under a reprimand, no matter how well deserved, or hear a kitten mewing or a child crying; but he had a horro ...
His was as Irish a face as could be found in the length and breadth of the homeland he had left so long ago��round, high colored, short nosed, wide ...