SOUTHERN HEARTS.
Southern Hearts
By
FLORENCE HULL WINTERBURN
Author of "Nursery Ethics,"and "From the Child's Standpoint"
New York
The F.M. Lupton Publishing Company
1900
Copyright, 1900,
By THE F. M. LUPTON PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Southern Hearts.
MY VIRGINIA FRIENDS;
ESPECIALLY TO
THAT ONE OF THEM WHO LIVES IN MY MEMORY
AS THE
TYPE OF ALL THAT IS SINCERE,
HOSPITABLE AND KINDLY
IN THE
SOUTHERN CHARACTER,
THIS VOLUME IS CORDIALLY INSCRIBED
BY THE AUTHOR.
Several of the stories in this volume haveappeared in the magazines; three areentirely new. For courteous permission toreprint thanks are due the publishers of "Romance,""Godey's Magazine," "The Ladies'World," and "The Independent."
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| When Love Enslaves | 11 |
| The Wife of Lothario | 41 |
| Peter Weaver | 153 |
| A Halt at Dawn | 263 |
| Pink and Black | 291 |
| Mrs. May's Private Income | 311 |
| The Laziest Girl in Virginia | 339 |
| An Awakening | 365 |
| Apple Blossoms | 389 |
SOUTHERN HEARTS. [Pg 13]
WHEN LOVE ENSLAVES.
It was a beautiful morning of early Octoberin the mountain region of Virginia. The oldFitzhugh homestead, now the property of anEnglishman who had married the only daughterof the impoverished family and bought in