SOCIAL LIFE IN OLD VIRGINIA
BEFORE THE WAR


[“Tall lilies, white as angels’ wings and stately as the maidens that walked among them.”]


Social Life in Old Virginia
Before the War

BY

THOMAS NELSON PAGE

With Illustrations by

THE MISSES COWLES

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

M DCCC XCVIII


Copyright, 1897,

By Charles Scribner’s Sons.

University Press:

John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.