The Ancient Law
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Glasgow Ellen Anderson Gholson. The Ancient Law
BOOK FIRST. THE NEW LIFE
CHAPTER I. The Road
CHAPTER II. The Night
CHAPTER III. The Return To Tappahannock
CHAPTER IV. The Dream Of Daniel Smith
CHAPTER V. At Tappahannock
CHAPTER VI. The Pretty Daughter Of The Mayor
CHAPTER VII. Shows The Graces Of Adversity
CHAPTER VIII "Ten Commandment Smith"
CHAPTER IX. The Old And The New
CHAPTER X. His Neighbour's Garden
CHAPTER XI. Bullfinch's Hollow
CHAPTER XII. A String Of Coral
BOOK SECOND. THE DAY OF RECKONING
CHAPTER I. In Which A Stranger Appears
CHAPTER II. Ordway Compromises With The Past
CHAPTER III. A Change Of Lodging
CHAPTER IV. Shows That A Laugh Does Not Heal A Heartache
CHAPTER V. Treats Of A Great Passion In A Simple Soul
CHAPTER VI. In Which Baxter Plots
CHAPTER VII. Shows That Politeness, Like Charity, Is An Elastic Mantle
CHAPTER VIII. The Turn Of The Wheel
CHAPTER IX. At The Cross-roads
CHAPTER X. Between Man And Man
CHAPTER XI. Between Man And Woman
BOOK THIRD. THE LARGER PRISON
CHAPTER I. The Return To Life
CHAPTER II. His Own Place
CHAPTER III. The Outward Pattern
CHAPTER IV. The Letter and the Spirit
CHAPTER V. The Will of Alice
CHAPTER VI. The Iron Bars
CHAPTER VII. The Vision and the Fact
CHAPTER VIII. The Weakness In Strength
BOOK FOURTH. LIBERATION
CHAPTER I. The Inward Light
CHAPTER II. At Tappahannock Again
CHAPTER III. Alice's Marriage
CHAPTER IV. The Power of the Blood
CHAPTER V. The House of Dreams
CHAPTER VI. The Ultimate Choice
CHAPTER VII. Flight
CHAPTER VIII. The End Of The Road
CHAPTER IX. The Light Beyond
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THOUGH it was six days since Daniel Ordway had come out of prison, he was aware, when he reached the brow of the hill, and stopped to look back over the sunny Virginia road, that he drank in the wind as if it were his first breath of freedom. At his feet the road dropped between two low hills beyond which swept a high, rolling sea of broomsedge; and farther still – where the distance melted gradually into the blue sky – he could see not less plainly the New York streets through which he had gone from his trial and the walls of the prison where he had served five years. Between this memory and the deserted look of the red clay road there was the abrupt division which separates actual experience from the objects in a dream. He felt that he was awake, yet it seemed that the country through which he walked must vanish presently at a touch. Even the rough March wind blowing among the broomsedge heightened rather than diminished the effect of the visionary meeting of earth and sky.
As he stood there in his ill-fitting clothes, with his head bared in the sun and the red clay ground to fine dust on his coarse boots, it would have been difficult at a casual glance to have grouped him appropriately in any division of class. He might have been either a gentleman who had turned tramp or a tramp who had been born to look a gentleman. Though he was barely above medium height, his figure produced even in repose an impression of great muscular strength, and this impression was repeated in his large, regular, and singularly expressive features. His face was square with a powerful and rather prominent mouth and chin; the brows were heavily marked and the eyes were of so bright a blue that they lent an effect which was almost one of gaiety to his smile. In his dark and slightly coarsened face the colour of his eyes was intensified until they appeared to flash at times like blue lights under his thick black brows. His age was, perhaps, forty years, though at fifty there would probably be but little change recorded in his appearance. At thirty one might have found, doubtless, the same lines of suffering upon his forehead and about his mouth.
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"Miss Meely she sez she's moughty sorry, suh, but she cyarn' hev ner strange gent'mun spendin' de night in de house. She reckons you mought sleep in de barn ef'n you wanter."
As the door opened wider, her whole person, clad in a faded woollen dress, patched brightly in many colours, emerged timidly and followed him to the topmost step.
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