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The Circuit Rider; A Tale of the Heroic Age
The Circuit Rider A Tale of the Heroic Age Author:Edward Eggleston General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 Original Publisher: C. Scribner's sons Subjects: Circuit riders Indiana Fiction / Religious Fiction / Christian / General Fiction / Christian / Historical History / General Religion / Christianity / Methodist Religion / Reference Notes: This is a black ... more »and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Let us understand ourselves. When we speak of Captain Lumsden as an old Virginia gentleman, we speak from his own standpoint. In his native state his hereditary rank was low -- his father was an " upstart," who, besides lacking any claims to " good Wood," had made money by doubtful means. But such is the advantage of emigration that among outside barbarians the fact of having been born in " Ole Virginny" was credential enough. Was not the Old Dominion the mother of presidents, and of gentlemen? And so Captain Lumsden was accustomed to tap his pantaloons with his raw-hide riding-whip, while he alluded to his relationships to " the old families," the Carys, the Archers, the Lees, the Peytons, and the far-famed William and Evelyn Bird; and he was especially fond of mentioning his relationship to that family whose aristocratic surname is spelled " Enroughty," while it is mysteriously and inexplicably pronounced " Darby," and to the " Tolivars," whose name is spelled " Taliaferro." Nothing smacks more of hereditary nobility than a divorce betwixt spelling and pronouncing. In all the Captain's strutting talk there was this shade of truth, that he was related to the old families through his wife. For Captain Lumsden would have scorned a prima facie lie. But, in his fertile mind, the truth was ever germinal -- little acorns of fact grew to great oaks of fable. How quickly a cr...« less