- "Miss Fanny Glen detested a masterful man"[Frontispiece]
- "'Ah, Sempland, have you told your little tale?'"[43]
- "The door was suddenly flung open"[95]
- "Poor little Fanny Glen ... she had lost on every hand"[153]
- "'You were a traitor to the South!' said
General Beauregard, coldly"[191] - "'Would they shoot me?' she inquired"[219]
A Little Traitor to the South
CHAPTER I
HERO VERSUS GENTLEMAN
Miss Fanny Glen's especial detestation was an assumption of authority on the part of the other sex. If there was a being on earth to whom she would not submit, it was to a masterful man; such a man as, if appearances were a criterion, Rhett Sempland at that moment assumed to be.
The contrast between the two was amusing, or would have been had not the atmosphere been so surcharged with passionate feeling, for Rhett Sempland was six feet high if he was an inch, while Fanny Glen by a Procrustean extension of herself could just manage to cover the five-foot mark; yet such was the spirit permeating the smaller figure that there seemed to be no great disparity, from the standpoint of combatants, between them after all.