Category: Historical Novels
It was an April day in the South--not windy and blustering, with the remembrances of March still clinging about it, but warm and lovely, mild and balmy, with spring beauty and promise of good over everything. The grass was springing everywhere, and the buds on the trees were b...
It was an April day in the South--not windy and blustering, with the remembrances of March still clinging about it, but warm and lovely, mild and balmy, with spring beauty and p...
2. CHAPTER II.Tom and Jimmy were quartered with an old colored woman called Aunt Margaret, one of the family servants, who in her old age had been furnished with a tiny brick house near the m...
3. CHAPTER III.Tom found, however, when he told the incident to the people who were assembled in Aunt Margaret’s cabin when he came in at night, that it created quite a sensation. The idea of...
4. CHAPTER IV.“Leave God to order all thy ways, And hope in him, whate’er betide; Thou’lt find him in the evil days: An all-sufficient strength and guide Who trusts in God’s unchanging love,...
5. CHAPTER V.After the commencement of Tom’s evening-school, and before he gave up his field-work, his time was so fully occupied that when the labors of the day were over, he often felt so...
6. CHAPTER VI.There was one part of Tom’s Sunday-school and evening-school work which I think he never took into consideration when he was endeavoring to calculate, as he was very fond of doi...
7. CHAPTER VII.Lillie’s first Sunday at the school was the commencement of a very strange friendship which grew up between herself and Tom. She never entered the library, except when especiall...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Five weeks afterward, at the window of the south room in the mansion of the Sutherland plantation, in a deep easy-chair, propped up with pillows, sat or rather reclined, Tom Als...