Copyright, 1909
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
CONTENTS
| [Chapter I] | [Chapter VIII] | |
| [Chapter II] | [Chapter IX] | |
| [Chapter III] | [Chapter X] | |
| [Chapter IV] | [Chapter XI] | |
| [Chapter V] | [Chapter XII] | |
| [Chapter VI] | [Chapter XIII] | |
| [Chapter VII] | [Chapter XIV] |
THROCKMORTON.
CHAPTER I.
In a lowland Virginia neighborhood, strangely cut off from the rest of the world geographically, and wrapped in a profound and charming stillness, a little universe exists. It has its oracles of law, medicine, and divinity; its wars and alliances. Free from that outward contact which makes an intolerable sameness among people, its types develop quaintly. There is peace, and elbow-room for everybody’s peculiarities.