The Master of Warlock: A Virginia War Story

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Eggleston George Cary. The Master of Warlock: A Virginia War Story

I. A break in the bridge

II. The bringing up of agatha

III. Jessamine and honeysuckle

IV. In revolt

V. At the oaks

VI. Next morning

VII. A farewell at the gate

VIII. A red feather

IX. The birth of womanhood

X. In action

XI. At warlock

XII. Under escort

XIII. A souvenir service

XIV. Quick work

XV. Agatha's venture

XVI. Canister

XVII. At headquarters

XVIII. A brush at the front

XIX. Agatha's resolution

XX. Two home-comings

XXI. At parting

XXII. Sam as a strategist

XXIII. A negotiation

XXIV. Flight

XXV. A narrow escape

XXVI. Mademoiselle roland

XXVII. Agatha's wonder-story

XXVIII. When a man talks too much

XXIX. A struggle of giants

XXX. The last straw

XXXI. At warlock and at the oaks

XXXII. In righteous wrath

XXXIII. Under red leaves

XXXIV. The end and after

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Agatha Roland was a particularly well ordered young gentlewoman, at least during her long, half-yearly visits to her aunts at The Oaks. At home with her maternal grandfather, Colonel Archer, she was neither well nor ill ordered – she was not ordered at all. She gave orders instead, in a gentle way; and her word was law, by virtue of her grandfather's insistence that it should be so regarded, and still more by reason of something in herself that gently gave authority to her will.

Agatha had been born at The Oaks, and that plantation was to be her property at the death of her two elderly maiden aunts, her dead father's sisters. But she had been taken as a little child to the distant home of her grandfather, Colonel Archer, and after her mother's death she had lived there alone with that sturdy old Virginia gentleman.

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For answer the old gentleman laughed aloud. Then he wrote:

"You see how shrewdly I have managed this thing, Ladybird. I wouldn't let you go to The Oaks till you had become too fully confirmed in your habit of being free, ever to be reformed."

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