Swallow Barn; Or, A Sojourn in the Old Dominion |
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Page 259 - There's a room for you, but" — he took off his hat and ran his fingers through his hair — "I don't think you ought to stay here.
Page 34 - ... if he has been in the Legislature, or better still, if in Congress. Such a person caught within the purlieus -of Swallow Barn, may set down one week's entertainment as certain — inevitable, and as many more as he likes — the more the merrier. He will know something of the quality of Meriwethers rhetoric before he is gone.
Page 481 - Nalbritz in Tartaria, the charitable Lady Callamata supplyed my necessities. In the utmost of many extremities, that blessed Pokahontas, the great King's daughter of Virginia, oft saved my life.
Page 31 - It is pleasant to see him when he is going to ride to the Court House on business occasions. He is then apt to make his appearance in a coat of blue broadcloth, astonishingly glossy, and with an unusual amount of plaited ruffle strutting through the folds of a Marseilles waistcoat. A worshipful finish is given to this costume by a large straw hat, lined with green silk. There is a magisterial fulness in his garments which betokens condition in the world, and a heavy bunch of seals, suspended by a...
Page 167 - ... temperate from necessity, and studious against his will. His face is accustomed to take the ply of his pursuits with great facility, grave and even severe in business, and readily rising into smiles at a pleasant conceit. He works hard when at his task ; and goes at it with the reluctance of an old horse in a bark-mill. His common-places are quaint and professional : they are made up of law maxims, and first occur to him in Latin. He measures all the sciences out of his proper line of study,...
Page 30 - ... long fetlocks and disordered mane, and a thousand burs in his tail, stalks through this company. But as it is forbidden ground to all his tribe, he is likely very soon to encounter a shower of corn-cobs from some of the negro men; upon which contingency he makes a rapid retreat across the bars which imperfectly guard the entrance to the yard, and with an uncouth display of his heels bounds away towards the brook, where he stops and looks back with a saucy defiance; and after affecting to drink...
Page 36 - ... hardihood, for a whole evening, bandying interjections, and making bows, and saying shrewd things, with all the courtesy imaginable. But, for unextinguishable pertinacity in argument, and utter impregnability of belief, there is no disputant like your country gentleman who reads the newspapers. When one of these discussions fairly gets under weigh, it never comes to an anchor again of its own accord : it is either blown out so far to sea as to be given up for lost, or puts into port in distress,...
Page 438 - ... gradually from the house to which it was attached, until it reached the height of the roof. These combustible materials were saved from the access of the fire by a thick coating of mud ; and the whole structure, from its tapering form, might be said to bear some resemblance to the spout of a tea kettle ; indeed, this domestic implement would furnish no unapt type of the complete cabin. From this description, which may serve to illustrate a whole species of habitations very common in Virginia,...
Page 21 - ... character. He had fine long legs, however, and got over the ground with surprising alacrity. At a most respectful distance behind me trotted the most venerable of outriders — an old free negro, formerly a retainer in some of the feudal establishments of the low countries. His name was Scipio. His face, which was principally composed of a pair of protuberant lips, whose luxuriance seemed intended as an indemnity for a pair of crushed nostrils, was well set off with a head of silver wool that...
Page 26 - It looks down upon a shady pocket or nook, formed by an indentation of the shore, from a gentle acclivity thinly sprinkled with oaks whose magnificent branches afford habitation to sundry friendly colonies of squirrels and woodpeckers. This time-honored mansion was the residence of the family of Hazards.