SOCIAL LIFE IN OLD VIRGINIA
BEFORE THE WAR

“Tall lilies, white as angels’ wings and stately as the maidens thatwalked among them.”

Social Life in Old Virginia
Before the War

BY

THOMAS NELSON PAGE

With Illustrations by

THE MISSES COWLES

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

M DCCC XCVIII

Copyright, 1897,

By Charles Scribner’s Sons.

University Press:

John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.

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List of Illustrations