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"Yonder are the people, and here, sir," Garnet pointed to where the green Swanee lay sweltering like the Nile, "is the stream that makes the tears trickle in every true Southerner's heart when he hears its song." "Still 'Always longing for the old plantation?" asked the youth. "Yes," said Barbara, defiantly.
She had arrived in March and caught Dame Nature in the midst of her spring cleaning, scolding her patient children; and at any rate her loyalty to Dixie forbade her to be quite satisfied with these tardy blandishments. Let the cold Connecticut turn as blue as heaven, by so much the more was it not the green Swanee?
Two or three well-known alumni of Rosemont and two or three Northern capitalists railroad prospectors were, on the following Friday, at the Swanee Hotel to be the guests of the Duke of Suez, as Ravenel was fondly called by the Rosemont boys. To show Suez at its best by night as well as by day, there was to be a Rosemont-Montrose ball in the hotel dining-room.
But presently he raised his tenor voice and soft brown lashes to the humble ceiling and sang. "Way down upon the Swanee River," Discoursed Jack plaintively, "Far, far away, Thar's whar my heart is turning ever, Thar's whar the old folks stay."
Niggers, having bored us with tiresome songs about coons and honeys and Swanee Rivers, would, as a last resource, strike up "God save the Queen" on the banjo. The whole house would have to rise and cheer.
One might expect a white ranch house beyond some low clump of trees, and chicken runs, and corrals. Along these apparent boundaries of forest trees our stream divided, and divided again, so that we were actually looking upon what we had come to seek the source of the Swanee branch of the Tsavo River. In these peaceful, protected meadows was it cradled.
At Ellaville, sixty-five miles from Tallahassee, they saw great saw-mills, and directly they crossed one of the most famous rivers in the country, the Suwannee, and Ruth hummed softly, "'Way down upon de Swanee Ribber, Far, far away." Soon afterwards they reached Live Oak, where they were to change cars for Savannah.
And even Garnet did not guess that Ravenel would not have telegraphed, as he did, to a bank in Pulaski City in which he was director, to grant the loan, had not John March just declined his offer of a third interest in the Courier. At evening March and Fair dined together in Hotel Swanee.
"What can you do in the classics, for example?" "Selections from Mendelssohn, Paganini, Schumann, Rubinstein " "Say, my friend," asked Handy, in some surprise, "do you play such music?" "Oh, yes, whenever I get a chance in public; but when alone they are my favorites. But, then, for encores I give them 'Killarney, 'Molly Bawn, 'The Swanee River, 'Mr.
"You're mighty kind to me, sir." The gentleman he saw on business was Ravenel. They supped together in a secluded corner of the Swanee Hotel dining-room, talking of Widewood and colonization, and by the time their cigars were brought by an obsequious black waiter with soiled cuffs March felt that he had never despatched so much business at one sitting in his life before.
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