“Thus we swallow politics with every meal. We take a mouthful and read a telegram, one eye on table, the other on the paper. One must be made of cool stuff to keep calm and collected, but I say but… — 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
