THE BERKELEYS
AND THEIR NEIGHBORS
BY
MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL
AUTHOR OF THROCKMORTON, MAID MARIAN, LITTLE JARVIS,
MIDSHIPMAN PAULDING, ETC.
REVISED EDITION
NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1892
Copyright, 1888,
By M. ELLIOT SEAWELL.
Copyright, 1892,
By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Printed at the
Appleton Press, U. S. A.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
THROCKMORTON. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents;cloth, $1.00.
“The incidents are of great interest, well-imagined, and admirablycarried out. But the notable feature of the book is the rare charm ofits literary expression. The language is full of grace and wit anddelicate sensibility. To read is to be beguiled.”—New York Sun.
“The pages of ‘Throckmorton’ are alive with picturesquesketches. Its humor is never forced, and its pathos is never overdone.It is a novel to linger over.”—The Critic.
“A charming story. The author has used good English, and thereader yields to the fascination of her style.”—The Book Buyer.
MAID MARIAN, and other Stories. 12mo.Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.
“There is an unmistakable cleverness in this collection of shortstories.”—Boston Literary World.
“Miss Seawell has a brisk and prolific fancy, and a turn for theodd and fantastic, while she is Past Master in the use of negro dialectand the production of tales of plantation life and manners. All thesestories are spirited, well marked by local color, and written with skilland ingenuity.”—New York Tribune.
MIDSHIPMAN PAULDING. A true story ofthe War of 1812. With Six full-page Illustrations.8vo. Bound in blue cloth, with special design ingold and colors. $1.00.
“The story is told in a breezy, pleasant style that can not fail tocapture the fancy of young readers, and imparts much historicalknowledge at the same time, while the illustrations will help theunderstanding of the events described. It is an excellent book forboys, and even the girls will be interested in it.”—BrooklynStandard-Union.
LITTLE JARVIS. The story of the heroic midshipmanof the frigate “Constellation.” With Sixfull-page Illustrations. 8vo. Bound uniformly with“Midshipman Paulding.” $1.00.
“Not since Dr. Edward Everett Hale’s classic, ‘The Man withouta Country,’ has there been published a more stirring lesson inpatriotism.”—Boston Beacon.
“It is what a boy would call ‘a real boy’s book.’”—CharlestonNews and Courier.
D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers, New York.
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THE BERKELEYS AND THEIRNEIGHBORS.
CHAPTER I.
A provincial Virginia race-course is an excellentp