Joscelyn Cheshire: A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas

Copyright, 1901, By DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.

“SHE SWEPT HIM A COURTESY FULL OF OPEN DEFIANCE AND RIDICULE.”
To my Husband WALKER KENNEDY This Book Is Dedicated

“Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.”
—Shakespeare.
He threw the door wide open and, with one foot advanced and his weight on the other hip, stood at pose with uplifted arm and sword; as gallant a figure as ever melted a maiden’s heart or stormed a foeman’s citadel. There was great suggestion of power in the straight limbs, a marvellous promise of strength in the upward sweep of the arm, which, for a moment, held the inmates of the room in silence of admiration. Then an avalanche of exclamations broke loose.
“Richard, Richard!”
“Master Clevering!”
“A health to the young Continental!”
“Oh, the new uniform, how bravely it doth become him!”