They had just been expelled from the University of Georgia, the fourth university that had thrown them out in two years; and their older brothers, Tom ...
Their family had more money, more horses, more slaves than any one else in the County, but the boys had less grammar than most of their poor Cracker n ...
In these accomplishments the twins excelled, and they were equally outstanding in their notorious inability to learn anything contained between the co ...
And raising good cotton, riding well, shooting straight, dancing lightly, squiring the ladies with elegance and carrying one's liquor like a gentleman ...
The more sedate and older sections of the South looked down their noses at the up-country Georgians, but here in north Georgia, a lack of the niceties ...
They had the vigor and alertness of country people who have spent all their lives in the open and troubled their heads very little with dull things in ...
Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on the porch were neither slack nor soft.
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They were all healthy, thoughtless young animals, sleek, graceful, high-spirited, the boys as mettlesome as the horses they rode, mettlesome and dange ...