Southern Hearts

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Florence Hull Winterburn. Southern Hearts

Southern Hearts

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WHEN LOVE ENSLAVES

PETER WEAVER. [2]

A HALT AT DAWN [3]

PINK AND BLACK [4]

MRS. MAY'S PRIVATE INCOME. [5]

THE LAZIEST GIRL IN VIRGINIA. [6]

AN AWAKENING [7]

APPLE BLOSSOMS [8]

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Florence Hull Winterburn

Published by Good Press, 2021

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I should like to dwell for a moment upon the scene of this little motherly conference. It was the "settin'-room" of a large, old-fashioned mansion in central Virginia, and was one of two ample square rooms lying on either side of a great hall that ran straight through the middle of the house and lost itself in a broad porch in the rear.

Its newly white-washed walls were half covered with dusky old family portraits interspersed with bits of what Amanda called "bric-a-brac," meaning wood-cuts from the illustrated weeklies, brilliantly colored fans, and bunches of ferns and grasses tied together with ends of sash ribbon. The worn carpet covering the middle of the floor was an ancient and costly Axminster, and the few pieces of furniture were of massive mahogany, the long sofa and two armchairs covered with black haircloth, but overlaid with so many knitted tidies and scarfs that their dreariness was well concealed. In the deep, wide fireplace a big log burned slowly this chilly April day, and on either side of a spider-legged table drawn up before the blaze, sat and rocked the elderly ladies, dividing their attention between a small decanter of Madeira and a plate of Aunt 'Liza's delicious plum cake, and the subject of Amanda's craze to go to New York.

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