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CHRONICLES OF CHICORA WOOD

MRS. PRINGLE AT CHICORA WOOD.

Photograph by Amelia M. Watson.

CHRONICLES OF
CHICORA WOOD

BY
ELIZABETH W. ALLSTON PRINGLE
AUTHOR OF “A WOMAN RICE PLANTER”


ILLUSTRATED


NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1922

Copyright, 1922, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
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Printed in the United States of America
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Published May, 1922

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PREFACE

As I sit in the broad piazza, watching the closing of the day, I gazeinto the vistas of moss-draped giant oaks. All is mystery, the mysteryof nature, the mystery of the ages. These oaks, still strong, stillbeautiful, have seen generations pass. Through their filmy vistas thegod of the day is sending his gleaming shafts as he has always done.

But brighter to me than these last rays is the pageant of the Past,which sweeps before me now: scenes as intense as the flaming sky,incidents as tender as the fleecy clouds, years as dark and tragic asthat leaden storm-bank at the horizon’s edge, but redeemed from utterdespair by a courage and a sacrifice equal in splendor to its illuminedsummits.

In my memory are stored the beauty and pathos of these years. Shall Ilet all this die without a word? These pictures I have treasured—sofull of beauty and color—shall I let them fade, even as the sunset,into gray oblivion? I cannot bring before you as clearly as I would thecharm and glamour of the past, but I can at least give a faint idea of“the days that are no more.{vii}{vi}”

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