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The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields by Ellen Glasgow (Paperback / softback, 2014)

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WHEN the Tusquehanna stage came to the daily halt beneath the blasted pine at the cross-roads, an elderly man, wearing a flapping frock coat and a soft slouch hat, stepped gingerly over one of the muddy wheels, and threw a doubtful glance across the level tobacco fields, where the young plants were drooping in the June sunshine. So this is my way, is it? he asked, with a jerk of his thumb toward a cloud of blue-and-yellow butterflies drifting over a shining puddle - five miles as the crow flies, and through a bog? For a moment he hung suspended above the encrusted axle, peering with blinking pale-gray eyes over a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles. In his appearance there was the hint of a scholarly intention unfulfilled, and his dress, despite its general carelessness, bespoke a different standard of taste from that of the isolated dwellers in the surrounding fields. A casual observer might have classified him as one of the Virginian landowners impoverished by the war; in reality, he was a successful lawyer in a neighbouring town, who, amid the overthrow of the slave-holding gentry some twenty years before, had risen into a provincial prominence. His humour met with a slow response from the driver, who sat playfully flicking at a horsefly on the flank of a tall, raw-boned sorrel. Wall, thar's been a sight of rain lately, he observed, with good-natured acquiescence, but I don't reckon the mud's more'n waist deep, an' if you do happen to git clean down, thar's Sol Peterkin along to pull you out. Whar're you hidin', Sol? Why, bless my boots, if he ain't gone fast asleep! At this a lean and high-featured matron, encased in the rigidity of her Sunday bombazine, gave a prim poke with her umbrella in the ribs of a sparrow-like little man, with a discoloured, scraggy beard, who dded in one corner of the long seat. I'd wake up if I was you, she remarked in the voice her sex assumes when virtue lapses into severity. Starting from his doze, the little man straightened his wiry, sunburned neck and mechanically raised his hand to wipe away a thin stream of tobacco juice which trickled from his half-open mouth. Hi! we ain't got here a'ready! he exclaimed, as he spat energetically into the mud. I d'clar if it don't beat all - one minute we're thar an' the next we're here. It's a movin' world we live in, ain't that so, mum? Then, as the severe matron still stared unbendingly before her, he descended between the wheels, and stood nervously scraping his feet in the long grass by the roadside.

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1499330340
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English
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Historical & Mythological Fiction
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Ellen Glasgow

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02/05/2014
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Black & White Illustrations
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United States

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