“It was one of those southern nights under whose spell all the sterner energies of the mind cloak themselves and lie down in bivouac, and the fancy and the imagination, that cannot sleep, slip their fetters and escape, beckoned away… — George W. Cable Copy Share Image
“militia. As they passed a field of broom-corn several men suddenly disappeared, their swift course through the cane being easily followed by the swaying… — George W. Cable Copy Share Image
“Yet the service went on. The people knelt. "'Almighty and most merciful Father; We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep.… — George W. Cable Copy Share Image
“Thus we swallow politics with every meal. We take a mouthful and read a telegram, one eye on table, the other on the paper.… — George W. Cable Copy Share Image
“Too big a coward inside," I laughed, "to be a big stout coward outside," and he assented.” — George W. Cable Copy Share Image
“It was one of those southern nights under whose spell all the sterner energies of the mind cloak themselves and lie down in bivouac,… — George W. Cable Copy Share Image
