Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
The Ancient Law
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664609793
Table of Contents
CHAPTER III The Return To Tappahannock
CHAPTER IV The Dream Of Daniel Smith
CHAPTER VI The Pretty Daughter Of The Mayor
CHAPTER VII Shows The Graces Of Adversity
CHAPTER VIII "Ten Commandment Smith"
CHAPTER IX The Old And The New
CHAPTER X His Neighbour's Garden
BOOK SECOND THE DAY OF RECKONING
CHAPTER I In Which A Stranger Appears
CHAPTER II Ordway Compromises With The Past
CHAPTER III A Change Of Lodging
CHAPTER IV Shows That A Laugh Does Not Heal A Heartache
CHAPTER V Treats Of A Great Passion In A Simple Soul
CHAPTER VI In Which Baxter Plots
CHAPTER VII Shows That Politeness, Like Charity, Is An Elastic Mantle
CHAPTER VIII The Turn Of The Wheel
CHAPTER XI Between Man And Woman
CHAPTER III The Outward Pattern
CHAPTER IV The Letter and the Spirit
CHAPTER VII The Vision and the Fact
CHAPTER VIII The Weakness In Strength
CHAPTER II At Tappahannock Again
CHAPTER IV The Power of the Blood
CHAPTER VI The Ultimate Choice
CHAPTER VIII The End Of The Road
BOOK FIRST
THE NEW LIFE
CHAPTER I
The Road
THOUGH it was six days since Daniel Ordway had come out of prison, he was aware, when he reached the brow of the hill, and stopped to look back over the sunny Virginia road, that he drank in the wind as if it were his first breath of freedom. At his feet the road dropped between two low hills beyond which swept a high, rolling sea of broomsedge; and farther still—where the distance melted gradually