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The Valiants of Virginia

Chapter 6 A VALIANT OF VIRGINIA

Word Count: 870    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

he sensation, spiritually, of a traveler awakened with a rude shock amid wholly unfamiliar surroundings.

since he had been old enough to wonder about such things, he had had no one to ask questions of. There had been no private papers or letters left for his adult perusal. It had been borne upon him

iant of New York instead of John Valiant of Damory Court.... I can not tell you myself." There was

e muttered; "what odd spelling! 'Robert Valyant'-without the 'e.' Here, in 1730, the 'y' begins to be 'i.'" There was somethin

westward. The sons of those who had braved sea and savages had bowed their strong bodies and their stronger hearts to raze the forests and turn the primeval jungles into golden plantations. Except as regarded his father, Valiant had never known ancestral pride before. He

g half-humorous mortification-a slender needle-prick of shame. The empty pretensions, subsisting on the

lazing with incandescents, interminable and alluring-an apotheosis of fevered movement and hectic color. He knew suddenly that he was sick of it all: its jostle and glitter, its mad race after bubbles, its hideous under-surface contrasts of wealth and squalor, its

e been the very day on which he had elected poverty? Here was a foreordination as pointed as the index-finger of a g

s if unsuccessful mastication of the flattish packet that had fallen from the folded deed-and with muc

nd extricated the object it had enc

l old-fashioned photograph, much battered and soiled. It had been cut from a larger group and the name of the photographer had been erased from the back

re the same, eyes, brow, lips, and strong waving hair. But for its tim

ing, the pictured face propped on the desk b

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1 Chapter 1 THE CRASH2 Chapter 2 VANITY VALIANT3 Chapter 3 THE NEVER-NEVER LAND4 Chapter 4 THE TURN OF THE PAGE5 Chapter 5 THE LETTER6 Chapter 6 A VALIANT OF VIRGINIA7 Chapter 7 ON THE RED ROAD8 Chapter 8 MAD ANTHONY9 Chapter 9 UNCLE JEFFERSON10 Chapter 10 WHAT HAPPENED THIRTY YEARS AGO11 Chapter 11 DAMORY COURT12 Chapter 12 THE CASE OF MOROCCO LEATHER13 Chapter 13 THE HUNT14 Chapter 14 SANCTUARY15 Chapter 15 MRS. POLY GIFFORD PAYS A CALL16 Chapter 16 THE ECHO17 Chapter 17 THE TRESPASSER18 Chapter 18 JOHN VALIANT MAKES A DISCOVERY19 Chapter 19 UNDER THE HEMLOCKS20 Chapter 20 ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD21 Chapter 21 AFTER THE STORM22 Chapter 22 THE ANNIVERSARY23 Chapter 23 UNCLE JEFFERSON'S STORY24 Chapter 24 IN DEVIL-JOHN'S DAY25 Chapter 25 JOHN VALIANT ASKS A QUESTION26 Chapter 26 THE CALL OF THE ROSES27 Chapter 27 BEYOND THE BOX-HEDGE28 Chapter 28 NIGHT29 Chapter 29 AT THE DOME30 Chapter 30 THE GARDENERS31 Chapter 31 TOURNAMENT DAY32 Chapter 32 A VIRGINIAN RUNNYMEDE33 Chapter 33 THE KNIGHT OF THE CRIMSON ROSE34 Chapter 34 KATHARINE DECIDES35 Chapter 35 "WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER"36 Chapter 36 BY THE SUN-DIAL37 Chapter 37 THE DOCTOR SPEAKS38 Chapter 38 THE AMBUSH39 Chapter 39 WHAT THE CAPE JESSAMINES KNEW40 Chapter 40 THE AWAKENING41 Chapter 41 THE COMING OF GREEF KING42 Chapter 42 IN THE RAIN43 Chapter 43 THE EVENING OF AN OLD SCORE44 Chapter 44 THE MAJOR BREAKS SILENCE45 Chapter 45 RENUNCIATION46 Chapter 46 THE VOICE FROM THE PAST47 Chapter 47 WHEN THE CLOCK STRUCK48 Chapter 48 THE SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE