Mr. and Mrs. Sên

Mr. and Mrs. Sên

In this day of kaleidoscopic changes, of brand-new ultra smartness, of emancipations so tremendous, so upheaving, so incalculably far-reaching that to some they almost seem to forecast the end of all things, still there are old bulwarks of customs, of character, of individualities and of life itself that neither change nor are changed. The Townsends of Virginia are today just what they were long before 1776. There is only one of them leftMiss Juliabut she is theythe Townsends of Virginia; gracious, unapproachable, deft in a small, delicate way with her harpsichord, accomplished at her jellies, proud of her naperies, tyrannous and over-indulgent to her darkies, a fine judge of horseflesh, sure of herself, doubtful of youunless your forebears of the same first-families caste as hers, had been born, had wived and begotten and borne, as hers invariably had, in Virginiaa stanch Episcopalian, refined to the nth degree, intolerant, sentimentalbut too proud, and of too good form, to own or to show itexclusive, generousexcept of her acquaintance and in her opinionsa writer of feeble verses, brilliant along her own selected and approved lines, dull and ill-informed on all others, autocratic and secretly supersensitive, a gourmet who ate very little, an expert judge of good wines who rarely drank thembuttermilk was her one creature weaknesscharitable (although she was poorly enough offhad to count her dimes, and couldnt count with even pretense at accuracy)charitable to every good work she approved of or hungry creature that came to her back door, relentlessly uncharitable to any cause she did not sympathize with and to any beggar who presumed at her front door. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 59200
Author: Miln, Louise Jordan
Release Date: Apr 3, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English