Marmaduke of Tennessee
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ISBN13: 9780217508797
Paperback|9780217508797
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE FOOT LOG MR. JOHN FORTUNE was a book-loving gentleman of a contemplative mind and expensive habits, such as backing paper at the bank. Upon a time he owned a fat boundary of bottomlands, which in the course of years, by foreclosure of mortgage, fell into the retentive hands of Jubal Marmaduke. It was made the matter of a kind of quarrel between them. The Judge's friends said that John Fortune was a spendthrift who borrowed money he could not repay. Mr. Fortune's friends said that old Jubal took advantage of a gentleman in difficulties. That was long ago. The breach it had caused between the families had never fully healed; and their intercourse was limited to the exchange of very stiff civilities ? cold, expressionless bows at church or on the turnpike. But here was secession and war, and private animosities were washed away, in the flood of partisan passion; old bitternesses were forgotten in the new arrangement of factions. Judge Marmaduke had been seen discussing the situation with Mr. Fortune in the courthouse yard, and had publicly accepted from him a chew of tobacco. MissCarrie Lou Bell, the Judge's sister, cried out the war news to Mrs. Fortune on the porch as she drove past in the rickety vehicle she called her carriage. And now Diana Fortune was home from Richmond, where she had spent so much of her life in school. She had lived at home so little that none of the Marmadukes had ever got much more than a glimpse of her since she was a child. There was much talk of her; she seemed to be the kind of woman people like to discuss, but so little was actually known of her in Spanishburg that accounts differed widely as to her beauty and charm. Mar- maduke remembered her as a dark-eyed little girl with obstreperous masses of black hair, riding barehead...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217508797 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217508790 |
| Weight | 0.71 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.49 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 214 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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