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Updated: May 31, 2025
Miss Betty met them on the porch, while her guests in the parlor craned their necks to catch a glimpse, through the open door, of the new arrivals. The languid sweetness of Miss Genevieve's tone floated in above Miss Betty's crisper utterance. "Mamma is just as usual, thank you. Yes, it was very kind of you to ask her; I have no doubt she finds it dull.
Chattanooga itself meant in the Cherokee tongue "the hawk's nest," and anybody could see the aptness of the term. While Lookout Mountain was the loftiest summit, some of the other ridges rose almost as high, through the gaps of which the Northern army must pass if it continued the pursuit of Bragg. September had now come and the winds were growing crisper in the high country.
Waffle after waffle each hotter and crisper than the last did those long-suffering men produce, till even Lilly's appetite gave out, and she was forced to own that she could not swallow another morsel. This climax reached, they went into the parlor, and the girls sat down in the window to watch the people in the street, which, after quiet Hillsover, looked as brilliant and crowded as Broadway.
And then we had a fourteen hours' drive, climbing, ever climbing, with a dip here and there as we negotiated the irregularities of the high country, the air becoming cooler and crisper every hour, and so clear that you could see for miles over the plains beneath. It is rather wonderful, this clearness of the atmosphere in Western America.
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