Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman

Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman

It will be remembered, doubtless, that the chronicles of my very dear friend, Colonel Carter (published some years ago), make mention of but one festival of importancea dinner given at Carter Hall, near Cartersville, Virginia; the Colonels ancestral home. This dinner, as you already know, was to celebrate two important eventsthe sale to the English syndicate of the coal lands, the exclusive property of the Colonels beloved aunt, Miss Nancy Carter; and the instantaneous transfer by that generous woman of all the purchase money to the Colonels slender bank account: a transaction which, to quote his own words as he gallantly drank her health in acknowledgment of the gift, enabled him to provide for one of the loveliest of her sexshe who graces our boadand to enrich her declining days not only with all the comforts, but with many of the luxuries she was bawn to enjoy. Several other festivals, however, did take place: not in the days of the dear Colonels prosperity, nor yet at Carter Hall, but in his impecunious days in New York, while he was still living in the little house on Bedford [Pg vi]Place within a stones throw of the tall clock-tower of Jefferson Market. This house, you will recall, sat back from the street behind a larger and more modern dwelling, its only outlet to the main thoroughfare being through a narrow, grewsome tunnel, lighted during the day by a half-moon sawed out in the swinging gate which marked its street entrance and illumined at night by a rusty lantern with dingy glass sides. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 27741
Author: Smith, Francis Hopkinson
Release Date: Jan 7, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Keller, Arthur Ignatius, 1866-1924 , Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay), 1875-1933