The Master of Warlock: A Virginia War Story

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The Master of Warlock: A Virginia War Story The Master of Warlock: A Virginia War Story

by George Cary Eggleston

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Published: 2012

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The Master of Warlock: A Virginia War Story (1903) by George Cary Eggleston. "The road was a winding, twisting track as it threaded its way through a stretch of old field pines. The land was nearly level at that point, and quite unobstructed, so that there was not the slightest reason that ordinary intelligence could discover for the roadway\'s devious wanderings. It might just as well have run straight through the pine lands. But in Virginia people were never in a hurry. They had all of leisure that well-settled and perfectly self-satisfied ways of life could bring to a people whose chief concern it was to live uprightly and happily in that state of existence into which it had pleased God to call them. What difference could it make to a people so minded, whether the journey to the Court-house—the centre and seat of county activities of all kinds—were a mile or two longer or shorter by reason of meaningless curves in the road, or by reason of a lack of them?..."

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