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The story as told by Miss Pinckney was quite simple and without any dark patches, and no man, one might fancy, could find cause for offence in it. Miss Pinckney, however, was quite unconscious of the fact that Silas Grangerson had attempted to take Richard Pinckney's life on the night of the Rhetts' dance.
In the power to inform the people of their rights and teach them their duties, we would be willing to pit one Mayhew against a score of Cushings and Rhetts, of Slidells and Yanceys. The fact that Mayhew's large and noble soul glowed with the inspiration of a quick moral and religious, as well as common, sense, would not, in our humble opinion, at all detract from his practical efficiency.
The pro-Romanist clergy is more furiously and savagely pro-slavery than are the Rhetts, the Yanceys, in the South; the poor Africo-Americans are, if not the truest Christians in this country, at any rate their Christianity is sublime when compared with the pro-Romanism. O, for civic intrepidity, or all is lost!
The State that hatched the secession egg, and proclaimed herself at all times first and foremost for the perpetuation of slavery, will not exult at the change which circumstances have wrought. Her Barnwells, her McGraths, her Rhetts, and her Hamptons declared they would perish in the last ditch, rather than submit. Some of them have perished, but many still remain.
Peter was still groaning softly; the old lady was looking back over the water to the row of fine houses, the once luxurious summer homes of Rhetts and Barnwells, of many a famous household now scattered and impoverished. The ferryman had heard of more one than bereft lady or gentleman who lived in seclusion in the old houses.
Thousands of the acres along the road belonged to the Rhetts, thousands to the Heywards, thousands to the Manigault the Lowndes, the Middletons, the Hugers, the Barnwells, and the Elliots all names too well known in the history of our country's sorrows. Occasionally one of their stately mansions could be seen on some distant elevation, surrounded by noble old trees, and superb grounds.
She sniffed as she said it, for the Rhetts, though one of the best families in the town, were people not of her way of thinking. The two Rhett girls had each a motor-car of her own and drove it abomination! The automobile ranked in her mind with the telephone as an invention of the devil. Phyl had not seen Richard Pinckney since the morning and now he was dining out.
Mary Mascarene, quiet, rather a spoil-sport and something of a tale-teller, dead and gone Pinckneys and Rhetts. Aunt Susan, Cousin Jane Pinckney, Uncle George who beat his coloured man, Darius, because the said Darius had let him go out with one brass button missing from his blue coat.
The Rhetts were giving a dance and they had sent an invitation to Phyl as well as Miss Pinckney. "It will be here by the morning post, I expect," said he. "You'd like to go, wouldn't you?" Phyl hesitated for a moment. "Is that I mean is that young lady Miss Frances Rhett the one who called here?" "Yes," cut in Pinckney, "those are the people. You'll come, won't you?" "Is Miss Pinckney going?"
"At his age, too!" commented Yancy. "And my daughter's the Lady Constance," said Polly. "Havin' such a mother she ain't no choice," observed Yancy, with an air of gentle deference. "Dick's got the family, Mr. Yancy. My folks, the Rhetts, was plain people." "Some of 'em ain't so noticeably plain, either," said Yancy. "Sho', you've a heap of good sense, Mr.
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