Books with author William Gilmore Simms

THE little town of Raymond, in the state of Mississippi, was tn the utmost commotion. Court-day was at hand, and nothing was to be heard but the hum of preparation for that most important of all days in the history of a country-village — that of general muster alone excepted. Strange faces and strange dresses began to show themselves in the main street; lawyers were entering from all quarters — "saddlebag" and " stalky" lawyers—men who cumber themselves with no weight of law, it can be contained in moderately-sized heads, or valise, or saddle-bag, of equally moderate dimensions. Prowling officers began to show their hands again, after a ten or twenty days' absence in the surrounding country, where they had gone to the great annoyance of simple farmers, who con tract large debts to the shop-keeper on the strength of crops yet to be planted, which are thus wasted on changeable silks for the spouse, and whistle-handled whips for " Young Hopeful" the ouly son and heir to possessions, which, in no long time, will be heard best of under the auctioneer's hammer The population of the village was increasing rapidly ; and wliat with the sharp militia colonel, in his new box coat, squab white hat, trim collar and high-heeled boots, seeking to find favor in the regiment against the next election for supplying the brigadier's vacancy; the swaggering planter to whom certain disquieting hints of foreclosure have been given, which he can evade no longer, and which he must settle as he may ; the slashing over seer, prime Cor cockfight or quarter-race, and not unwilling to try his own prowess upon his neighbor, should occasion serve and all other sports fail; the pleading and unpleading, prosecutor and prosecuted, witnesses and victims—Raymond never promised more than at present to swell beyond all reasonable boundaries, and make a noise in the little world round it.

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ADVERTISEMENT. Richard Hurdis was held to be objectionable by many, if I may believe the language of the press, as too stern, gloomy and even savage of character. I know not how this may be, but I know that it was truthful, and drawn from the life. The story which succeeds, and which, in respect to the general mn- teriel, is its proper sequel, may be held censurable as in the other extreme. But it is no less truthful. The history upon which it is founded, is beyond question, and I can confidently affirm that all the leading characters are drawn from the life. Even my actor, absurd as such a character may seem, emanating from the wild woods of Mississippi, is no less real as a personage than any of the rest. The levity is his. not mine. 1 can no more answer for his absurdities than I can excuse the gravity of the preceding work. Let the extremes nentralize each other. I am very sure that the anomalies and contradictions are none of mine. Nature has her sports, no less than Art, and it is in her extravagancies that Art must find her justification. chapter{Section 4BORDER BEAGLES. CHAPTER I. COURT SEASON. -I have got A seat to git t ease here, in mine inn, To see the comedy; and laugh and chuck At the variety and throng of humors, And dispositions that come jostling in And out? Ben Johgon.? The New Inn. The little town of Raymond, in the state of Mississippi, was m the utmost commotion. Court-day was at hand, and nothing as to be heard but the hum of preparation for that most important of all days in the history of a country-village ? that of general muster alone excepted. Strange faces and strange dresses began to show themselves in the main street; lawyers were entering from all quarters?saddlebag and sulky lawyers ? men who cumber themselves with no ...

Historical novelist William Gilmore Simms first published The Forayers in 1855 at the peak of his reputation and ability. Simms had set out to create a prose epic through a series of linked novels detailing American history and struggles from early colonization to the mid-nineteenth century. The Forayers, which was the sixth book in his series of eight Revolutionary War novels set in the South, describes events around Orangeburg, South Carolina, before the Battle of Eutaw Springs (itself covered in this novel's sequel, Eutaw). It features such characters as Hell-fire Dick, a hardhearted, foul-mouthed looter under Tory protection. Simms hoped his readers would find this book "a bold, brave, masculine story; frank, ardent, vigorous; faithful to humanity." He described it to a friend as "fresh and original" and wrote that "the characterization [is] as truthful as forcible. It is at once a novel of society & a romance."

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