Red Rock; A Chronicle of Reconstruction (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1900. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVIII MRS. WELCH ARRIVES AND GIVES HER FIRST LESSON IN ENTERPRISE The next day, Still called to see Major Welch and made him a proposition to sell him a part of the Red Rock place. On thinking it over, he said, he believed he'd rather have the Major as a near neighbor than to have him farther off, and he also believed that the Major would find it safer to buy from him a place he had got under decree of court, and had already held quietly for some time, than to buy a place about which there might be a question and where he'd be sure to incur the enmity of the old owners. This reason, to judge from Major Welch's expression, did not make much impression on him. He did not wish to incur anyone's enmity, he said. But if he bought honestly, and became the lawful owner of a place, he should not mind what others thought. Still shook his head. Major Welch did not know these people, he said. "And to be honest with you, Major, I feel as if having you right here by me was a sort of protection. They daresn't touch a gentleman who's been in the Union army, and who's got big friends. And that's one reason I'd like to have you right close to me." His manner had something so sincere in it that it was almost pathetic. So, as he made Major Welch what appeared to be really a very reasonable proposal, not only as to the Stamper place, but also as to several hundred acres of the Red Rock land adjoining, the Major agreed to take it under advisement, and intimated that if the title should prove all right, and Mrs. Welch should like the idea when she arrived he would probably purchase. Within a week or two following Major Welch's trip to the county seat, and Still's offer to sell him the Stamper place and a part of Red Rock, Mrs. Welch arrived. Mrs. Welch, in her impat...

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1900. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVIII MRS. WELCH ARRIVES AND GIVES HER FIRST LESSON IN ENTERPRISE The next day, Still called to see Major Welch and made him a proposition to sell him a part of the Red Rock place. On thinking it over, he said, he believed he'd rather have the Major as a near neighbor than to have him farther off, and he also believed that the Major would find it safer to buy from him a place he had got under decree of court, and had already held quietly for some time, than to buy a place about which there might be a question and where he'd be sure to incur the enmity of the old owners. This reason, to judge from Major Welch's expression, did not make much impression on him. He did not wish to incur anyone's enmity, he said. But if he bought honestly, and became the lawful owner of a place, he should not mind what others thought. Still shook his head. Major Welch did not know these people, he said. "And to be honest with you, Major, I feel as if having you right here by me was a sort of protection. They daresn't touch a gentleman who's been in the Union army, and who's got big friends. And that's one reason I'd like to have you right close to me." His manner had something so sincere in it that it was almost pathetic. So, as he made Major Welch what appeared to be really a very reasonable proposal, not only as to the Stamper place, but also as to several hundred acres of the Red Rock land adjoining, the Major agreed to take it under advisement, and intimated that if the title should prove all right, and Mrs. Welch should like the idea when she arrived he would probably purchase. Within a week or two following Major Welch's trip to the county seat, and Still's offer to sell him the Stamper place and a part of Red Rock, Mrs. Welch arrived. Mrs. Welch, in her impat...

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General Books LLC

Country of origin

United States

Release date

2012

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First published

2012

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Dimensions

246 x 189 x 10mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

182

ISBN-13

978-0-217-04020-4

Barcode

9780217040204

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LSN

0-217-04020-9



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