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The Entailed Hat

George Alfred Townsend

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Go, leave us, proud one! despiser, go!' Yet there is one I see, pure as my bride, white as my captive's bosom, her soul all in her believing eyes, and saying, 'Oh, my son, it is a woman like me that has come into your life, and her heart is very tender, and, by your mother's dying love! be kind to the poor stranger you have bought.'"

He answered, "I will!" aloud, and it seemed almost a miraculous coincidence that it was a response to the minister's question, till he heard the corresponding inquiry put to his bride in the clergyman's low, but gentlest, tones:

"Wilt thou obey him, and serve him, love, honor, and keep him, in sickness and in health; and forsaking all[Pg 116] others, keep thee only unto him, so long as ye both shall live?"

"I will!" spoke the Judge's daughter, clear as music, and the Judge drew a long, deep sigh, saturated with tears, as if from the deepest wells of grief.

He could not distinctly answer, as he joined her . . . Read More

Community Reviews

Remarkable book -- history, drama, comedy... a tale of the Princess Anne area along the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the pre-Civil War days. It is fascinating to read, both for the political and social history and for the dialog.

Everyone on Delmarva should read this book. It's about who we are and where we came from.