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OverviewGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1909 Original Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / General Fiction / Westerns Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III Carson's Landing IT has always been a point of genealogical dispute as to whether or not Theodore Carson's father was of kin to the founder of the old Carson place up Fish River. It was one of those controversies in which one side is supposed to be trying to climb, the other to be oblivious of the climbing, and both are in a position of peculiar delicacy from the fact that they are all Americans, and disbelievers in anything like inherited rank. General Carson, in his lean years, used to sell turpentine to his namesake at the dingy ship- chandlery on the wharf near the Eslava Street oyster dock. On these commercial occasions, the general, when mellowed by juleps, with his foot on the brass rail and his elbows on the bar, used to call the ship-chandler cousin. At other times, however, he made no bones of his opinion that the Mobile Carsonses were damned common people, and branded as impudent any fool claim of kinship between the humble tradesman and the Carsonsesof Marengo County. The ship-chandler was too proud to make any claim, but privately believed in the kinship theory; and when the general died, having lost his Marengo estates in trying to breed the one-fifty trotter, it was discovered that he owed the ship-chandler on mortgage more than the value of the Fish River plantation, which passed to the rejected branch of the Carsonses. Theodore's father, delighted to have come into what he felt to be h... Full Product DetailsAuthor: Herbert QuickPublisher: General Books LLC Imprint: General Books LLC Dimensions: Width: 22.90cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 15.20cm Weight: 0.290kg ISBN: 9781150414701ISBN 10: 1150414707 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 22 December 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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