Gabriel Tolliver by Joel Chandler Harris
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GABRIEL TOLLIVER
_A Story of Reconstruction_
By JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
_Author of "Uncle Remus," "The Making of a Statesman," etc._
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. NEW YORK 1902
COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
_Published, October, 1902 R_
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To James Whitcomb Riley
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CONTENTS
_Prelude_
CHAPTER ONE _Kettledrum and Fife_
CHAPTER TWO _A Town with a History_
CHAPTER THREE _The Return of Two Warriors_
CHAPTER FOUR _Mr. Goodlett's Passengers_
CHAPTER FIVE _The Story of Margaret Gaither_
CHAPTER SIX _The Passing of Margaret_
CHAPTER SEVEN _Silas Tomlin Goes A-Calling_
CHAPTER EIGHT _The Political Machine Begins Its Work_
CHAPTER NINE _Nan and Gabriel_
CHAPTER TEN _The Troubles of Nan_
CHAPTER ELEVEN _Mr. Sanders in His Cups_
CHAPTER TWELVE _Caught in a Corner_
CHAPTER THIRTEEN _The Union League Organises_
CHAPTER FOURTEEN _Nan and Her Young Lady Friends_
CHAPTER FIFTEEN _Silas Tomlin Scents Trouble_
CHAPTER SIXTEEN _Silas Tomlin Finds Trouble_
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN _Rhody Has Something to Say_
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN _The Knights of the White Camellia_
CHAPTER NINETEEN _Major Tomlin Perdue Arrives_
CHAPTER TWENTY _Gabriel at the Big Poplar_
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE _Bridalbin Follows Gabriel_
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO _The Fate of Mr. Hotchkiss_
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE _Mr. Sanders Searches for Evidence_
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR _Captain Falconer Makes Suggestions_
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE _Mr. Sanders's Riddle_
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX _Cephas Has His Troubles_
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN _Mr. Sanders Visits Some of His Old Friends_
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT _Nan and Margaret_
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE _Bridalbin Finds His Daughter_
CHAPTER THIRTY _Miss Polly Has Some News_
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE _Mr. Sanders Receives a Message_
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO _Malvern Has a Holiday_
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE _Gabriel as an Orator_
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR _Nan Surrenders_
GABRIEL TOLLIVER
_Prelude_
"Cephas! here is a letter for you, and it is from Shady Dale! I know you will be happy now."
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Gabriel Tolliver by Joel Chandler Harris
- 2: To receive a letter from Shady Dale
- 3: Gathered from the fragmentary history of Tasma Tid
- 4: But Dilly Bal knows nothing of the katydids
- 5: Dorrington fetched Tasma Tid home
- 6: To see how your grandmother wavies her hair
- 7: Gabriel and Cephas had not gone so far
- 8: There was the big gin running at the Clopton place
- 9: How I gwineter spell Johnny Murrell
- 10: And the left hand one Battercakes
- 11: But meanwhile Nan and Gabriel and Cephas
- 12: Seeing the waggon crosswise the road
- 13: Goodlett looked at the bright face lifted up to his
- 14: Raleigh Clopton gave a part of his domain
- 15: Conveyed the domain to Raleigh Clopton
- 16: Were all combined against Whitney
- 17: That's what Miss Polly Gaither says
- 18: And Cephas leaped from the house
- 19: Absalom Goodlett by some of Sherman's men
- 20: Exclaimed Francis Bethune angrily
- 21: Goodlett found them grazing about
- 22: That Miss Polly Gaither lives in the Gaither house
- 23: Having signed to Cephas to make himself invisible
- 24: An' he keeps on talkin' about the Clopton Place
- 25: Followed by his faithful Cephas
- 26: Margaret Gaither has come home
- 27: The Tomlin Place was found to be on fire
- 28: Pulaski Tomlin was not a witness to this performance
- 29: Pulaski here has done me many a favour
- 30: 'My name is Perdue Tomlin Perdue
- 31: If I had been Margaret Gaither
- 32: Thus she became Rosalind Clopton
- 33: Margaret Gaither and her daughter have returned
- 34: Lumsden to her mother's bedside
- 35: And why should Gabriel get a parasol
- 36: Dorrington came downstairs at this moment
- 37: Remarked Pulaski Tomlin solemnly
- 38: At a signal from Pulaski Tomlin
- 39: Goodlett was her senior by several years
- 40: Silas Tomlin was Neighbour Tomlin's elder brother
- 41: Silas Tomlin looked hard at Mrs
- 42: Goodlett had a plate of victuals carrying it to the kitchen
- 43: Goodlett remarked by way of consolation
- 44: Claiborne came into the parlour
- 45: The arrival of the Claibornes had much the same effect
- 46: Sanders intended that it should
- 47: Said the master of the Clopton Place
- 48: When Meriwether Clopton went out
- 49: Advised the white voters to qualify as rapidly as possible
- 50: Arter the Dimmycrats elected him President
- 51: I'll never be anything but plain Bethune
- 52: Gabriel blushed again in spite of himself
- 53: Jeremiah took off his hat and smiled broadly
- 54: Eugenia seized her by both elbows And
- 55: But when Malindy came with the camphor
- 56: An' ast me for a pair of shoes
- 57: Dorrington was in her own room when Nan found her
- 58: Dorrington of the conversation she and Gabriel had overheard
- 59: Dorrington jumped from her chair
- 60: Tasma Tid was in a state of insurrection
- 61: With an unspoken invitation to Tasma Tid
- 62: Sanders drew a pistol from his pocket
- 63: But Nan well knew why Gabriel was silent
- 64: You cried bekase old Billy Sanders was drunk
- 65: Gabriel had spent many a happy hour there
- 66: I'm bleeze ter have elbow room
- 67: Jeremiah Tomlin will lecture here to night
- 68: Nan followed Tasma Tid to the closet
- 69: Nan and Tasma Tid held their breath while they listened
- 70: Exclaimed Tasma Tid derisively
- 71: That fact constitutes my credentials
- 72: Hotchkiss brought his remarks to a close
- 73: But me an' my marster wus boys tergedder
- 74: But I'll hatter bid you good night
- 75: ' I dunner what done come over eve'ybody
- 76: We'll hatter git out'n de church
- 77: The members of the Dorrington household
- 78: Dorrington was not in the humour for scolding
- 79: Dorrington thought his daughter should have a little lecture
- 80: Tomlin say that Gabriel would make a great orator some day
- 81: Nan is nearly as old as you are
- 82: Miss Ritta say she want to see you right now
- 83: I have sent for you at the suggestion of Judge Vardeman
- 84: Thereupon Judge Vardeman suggested to Mrs
- 85: Tidwell was a very able man in some respects
- 86: Sanders inquired with affected solicitude
- 87: Silas Tomlin called to Lawyer Tidwell
- 88: And the other half to Pulaski Tomlin
- 89: It was Pulaski Tomlin who really formed Paul's character
- 90: Rhody paused and waited for a reply
- 91: Rhody started toward the kitchen
- 92: Eugenia returned almost immediately
- 93: And Silas could but observe how beautiful she was
- 94: CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Rhody Has Something to Say Now
- 95: Is he yever loant yo' ma any money
- 96: Exclaimed Rhody enthusiastically
- 97: Pulaski Tomlin leaned back in an easy chair
- 98: But Rhody was perfectly serious
- 99: When Rhody went out into the street
- 100: Do you suppose that Eugenia Claiborne
- 101: Lincoln's plan of reconstruction
- 102: Except in occasional conversations with Meriwether Clopton
- 103: She saw Gabriel coming directly toward her
- 104: The woods and the velvety Bermuda fields
- 105: Hotchkiss was standing near the speaker
- 106: Jeremiah emerged from the window
- 107: When Hotchkiss was out of sight
- 108: Major Perdue paused a moment in his talk
- 109: Tolliver the women and the children
- 110: The handbill was in the nature of a proclamation
- 111: As Gabriel sat leaning against the old poplar
- 112: But she's all that's saved Mahlon
- 113: Britt I'll come over after supper an' set awhile
- 114: Replied Hotchkiss in his smoothest tone
- 115: Exclaimed Hotchkiss with grateful enthusiasm
- 116: Miss Puella was thinking of Waldron Awtry
- 117: And was now going in the direction of Mahlon Butts's home
- 118: Bethune was upstairs in his own room
- 119: The Bermuda hill was good enough for Gabriel
- 120: It's no use for Gabriel to blow his horn
- 121: The Hotchkisses swarm wherever there is an opening for them
- 122: Ike was the most popular negro in the town
- 123: Hotchkiss as a very unfavourable sign
- 124: Hotchkiss ceased to walk rapidly
- 125: Edging still closer to Hotchkiss
- 126: It was the personality of Meriwether Clopton
- 127: His destination was the residence of Mahlon Butts
- 128: Was the solemn comment of Mahlon
- 129: I didn't have on no apern that night
- 130: So these old friends Meriwether Clopton
- 131: Lumsden exclaimed bitterly why
- 132: How come we ain't name Tasma Tid
- 133: Sanders could not fail to catch
- 134: Meriwether Clopton came up behind them
- 135: Were Meriwether Clopton and Mr
- 136: As they sat in the library at the Clopton Place
- 137: But Meriwether Clopton protested
- 138: Captain Falconer looked at Cephas
- 139: Sanders's remark about wheedling
- 140: Stermera Andersa antwasa ota eesa ooya
- 141: Meriwether Clopton called on her
- 142: When the time came for Cephas to be off with the Captain
- 143: As Meriwether Clopton often declared
- 144: Tidwell lowered his head and appeared to reflect
- 145: Tidwell came forth from the lawyer's office
- 146: Cephas looked at her hard a moment
- 147: Cephas was angry without knowing why
- 148: Sanders had gone to bed early the night before
- 149: Whereupon the roan playfully bit at him
- 150: And you want to see Tomlin because you have had trouble
- 151: Tomlin is mighty near wild about it
- 152: Sanders became the complainant
- 153: And were ushered in by Minervy Ann
- 154: He asked Cephas a great many artful questions
- 155: He speedily became a celebrated Cephas
- 156: Cephas had the unmixed pleasure of seeing Nan turn pale
- 157: There was one fact that bothered Cephas
- 158: 'Do look at that Nan Dorrington
- 159: He wants me to marry Francis Bethune
- 160: Margaret had led Nan into a strange country
- 161: She promptly called Neighbour Tomlin out of the library
- 162: She addressed Neighbour Tomlin again
- 163: Neighbour Tomlin remarked drily
- 164: Madame Awtry called my attention to it
- 165: Tasma Tid had joined them as they came through the gate
- 166: Had paid a very early visit to the Lumsden Place
- 167: I am very fond of Ritta Claiborne
- 168: Silas stared at her before replying
- 169: For awhile Silas was suspicious
- 170: Silas regarded her with astonishment
- 171: Inquired Silas with some eagerness
- 172: Ef thar ain't old Silas Tomlin out huntin'
- 173: Sanders to the head quarters of the Fire Department
- 174: His duel with Colonel Conrad Asbury
- 175: And they will reach Malvern the next morning
- 176: Tidwell went to the hotel opposite the railway station
- 177: But why then did the Malvern Recorder
- 178: Way over yander in the fur eend of town
- 179: Major Perdue whipped out his pistol and a shot rang out
- 180: Where he was met by Colonel Tom Vardeman
- 181: Sanders as the negroes came forward
- 182: But it holp the gal up might'ly
- 183: Sanders found him asleep in the cotton bale box
- 184: But the citizens of Halcyondale
- 185: Or it may have been arranged by Major Perdue
- 186: She might not be very fond of Gabriel
- 187: Gabriel found it very charming
- 188: Miss Polly Gaither took her leave