Author : Edward Payson Roe
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ISBN 13 : 9781331138372
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (383 download)
Book Synopsis The Works of E. P. Roe (Classic Reprint) by : Edward Payson Roe
Download or read book The Works of E. P. Roe (Classic Reprint) written by Edward Payson Roe and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of E. P. Roe At the beginning of the Civil War there was a fine old residence on Meeting Street in Charleston, South Carolina, inhabited by a family almost as old as the State. Its inheritor and owner, Orville Burgoyne, was a widower. He had been much saddened in temperament since the death of his wife, and had withdrawn as far as possible from public affairs. His library and the past had secured a stronger hold upon his interest and his thoughts than any thing in the present, with one exception, his idolized and only child, Mary, named for her deceased mother. Any book would be laid aside when she entered; all gloom banished from his eyes when she coaxed and caressed him. She was in truth, one to be loved because so capable of love herself. She conquered and ruled every one, not through wilfulness or imperiousness, but by a gentle charm, all her own, which disarmed opposition. At first Mr. Burgoyne had paid little heed to the mutterings which preceded the Civil War, believing them to be but Chinese thunder, produced by ambitious politicians, North and South. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
