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Julian Street. American Adventures: A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
American Adventures: A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'
Table of Contents
THE BORDERLAND
AMERICAN ADVENTURES
CHAPTER I. ON JOURNEYS THROUGH THE STATES
CHAPTER II. A BALTIMORE EVENING
CHAPTER III. WHERE THE CLIMATES MEET
CHAPTER IV. TRIUMPHANT DEFEAT
CHAPTER V. TERRAPIN AND THINGS
CHAPTER VI. DOUGHOREGAN MANOR AND THE CARROLLS
CHAPTER VII. A RARE OLD TOWN
CHAPTER VIII. WE MEET THE HAMPTON GHOST
CHAPTER IX. ARE WE STANDARDIZED?
CHAPTER X. HARPER'S FERRY AND JOHN BROWN
CHAPTER XI. THE VIRGINIAS AND THE WASHINGTONS
CHAPTER XII. I RIDE A HORSE
CHAPTER XIII. INTO THE OLD DOMINION
CHAPTER XIV. CHARLOTTESVILLE AND MONTICELLO
CHAPTER XV. THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
CHAPTER XVI. FOX-HUNTING IN VIRGINIA
CHAPTER XVII "A CERTAIN PARTY"
CHAPTER XVIII. THE LEGACY OF HATE
CHAPTER XIX "YOU-ALL" AND OTHER SECTIONAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS
CHAPTER XX. IDIOMS AND ARISTOCRACY
CHAPTER XXI. THE CONFEDERATE CAPITAL
CHAPTER XXII. RANDOM RICHMOND NOTES
CHAPTER XXIII. JEDGE CRUTCHFIELD'S CO'T
CHAPTER XXIV. NORFOLK AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD
CHAPTER XXV. COLONEL TAYLOR AND GENERAL LEE
THE HEART OF THE SOUTH
CHAPTER XXVI. RALEIGH AND JOSEPHUS DANIELS
CHAPTER XXVII. ITEMS FROM "THE OLD NORTH STATE"
CHAPTER XXVIII. UNDER ST. MICHAEL'S CHIMES
CHAPTER XXIX. HISTORY AND ARISTOCRACY
CHAPTER XXX. POLITICS, A NEWSPAPER AND ST. CECILIA
CHAPTER XXXI "GULLA" AND THE BACK COUNTRY
CHAPTER XXXII. OUT OF THE PAST
CHAPTER XXXIII. ALIVE ATLANTA
CHAPTER XXXIV. GEORGIA JOURNALISM
CHAPTER XXXV. SOME ATLANTA INSTITUTIONS
CHAPTER XXXVI. A BIT OF RURAL GEORGIA
CHAPTER XXXVII. A YOUNG METROPOLIS
CHAPTER XXXVIII. BUSY BIRMINGHAM
CHAPTER XXXIX. AN ALLEGORY OF ACHIEVEMENT
CHAPTER XL. THE ROAD TO ARCADY
CHAPTER XLI. A MISSISSIPPI TOWN
CHAPTER XLII. OLD TALES AND A NEW GAME
CHAPTER XLIII. OUT OF THE LONG AGO
CHAPTER XLIV. THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND HIM
CHAPTER XLV. VICKSBURG OLD AND NEW
CHAPTER XLVI. SHREDS AND PATCHES
CHAPTER XLVII. THE BAFFLING MISSISSIPPI
CHAPTER XLVIII. OLD RIVER DAYS
CHAPTER XLIX. WHAT MEMPHIS HAS ENDURED
CHAPTER L. MODERN MEMPHIS
FARTHEST SOUTH
CHAPTER LI. BEAUTIFUL SAVANNAH
CHAPTER LII. MISS "JAX" AND SOME FLORIDA GOSSIP
CHAPTER LIII. PASSIONATE PALM BEACH
CHAPTER LIV. ASSORTED AND RESORTED FLORIDA
CHAPTER LV. A DAY IN MONTGOMERY
CHAPTER LVI. THE CITY OF THE CREOLE
CHAPTER LVII. HISTORY, THE CREOLE, AND HIS DUELS
CHAPTER LVIII. FROM ANTIQUES TO PIRATES
CHAPTER LIX. ANTOINE'S AND MARDI GRAS
CHAPTER LX. FINALE
FOOTNOTES
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Julian Street
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The King of Italy, the Emperor of Austria, the Czar, the Mikado, the British Monarch, the President of France, the King of the Belgians, the Kaiser (for the United States had not then entered the war), and, I think, some others, put in an appearance, each accompanied by his Paphian escort, his standard, and the appropriate national air. Apprehending that this symbolic travesty must, almost inevitably, end in a grand orgy of Yankee-Doodleism, I was impelled to flee the place before the thing should happen. Yet a horrid fascination held me there to watch the working up of "patriotic" sentiment by the old, cheap, stage tricks.
Presently, of course, the supreme moment came. When all the potentates had taken their positions, right and left, with their silk-limbed soldiery in double ranks behind them, there came into view upstage a squad of little white-clad female naval officers, each, according to my recollection, carrying the Stars and Stripes. As these marched forward and deployed as skirmishers before the footlights, the orchestra struck up "The Star-Spangled Banner," fortissimo, and with a liberal sounding of the brasses. Upon this appeared at the back a counterfeit President of the United States, guarded on either side by a female militia—or were they perhaps secret-service agents?—in striking uniforms consisting of pink fleshings partially draped with thin black lace.
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