# A Strange, Sad Comedy

Author: Seawell, Molly Elliot, 1860-1916

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67659

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+Strange%2C+Sad+Comedy+Seawell&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

One sunny November day, in 1864, Colonel Archibald Corbin sat placidly reading “The Spectator” in the shabby old library at Corbin Hall, in Virginia. The Colonel had a fine, pale old face, clean shaven, except for a bristly, white mustache, and his white hair, which was rather long, was combed back in the fashion of the days when Bulwer’s heroes set the style for hair-dressing. The Colonel--who was no more a colonel than he was a cheese-box--had an invincible placidity, which could not be disturbed by wars or rumors of wars. He had come into the world in a calm and judicial frame of mind, and meant to go through it and out of it calmly and judicially, in spite of rude shocks and upheavals.

## Chapters

- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-strange-sad-comedy-67659/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-strange-sad-comedy-67659/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-strange-sad-comedy-67659/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-strange-sad-comedy-67659/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-strange-sad-comedy-67659/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-strange-sad-comedy-67659/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-strange-sad-comedy-67659/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-strange-sad-comedy-67659/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-strange-sad-comedy-67659/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-strange-sad-comedy-67659/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-strange-sad-comedy-67659/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-strange-sad-comedy-67659/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-strange-sad-comedy-67659/chapters/13/index.md)