He was happy, pleasantly excited over the prospect of spending the day shouting about the Yankees and the war, and proud of his three pretty daughters ...
Occasionally he burst out with Peg in a Low- backed Car and other Irish ditties or the more lugubrious lament for Robert Emmet, She is far from the la ...
He had shoved the responsibility onto Ellen, and her disappointment at missing the barbecue and the gathering of her friends did not enter his mind; f ...
Gerald rode beside the carriage on his big hunter, warm with brandy and pleased with himself for having gotten through with the unpleasant business of ...
Mammy, as head woman of the plantation, had remained to help Ellen, and it was Dilcey who rode on the driver's seat beside Toby, the girls' dancing dr ...
He had told Gerald over and over that Emmie Slattery's baby might have been fathered by any one of a dozen men as easily as himself��an idea in whic ...