Hell Or Richmond
“Demure, laced tight, and bonneted, the quality sort made their way along in bright-eyed detachments of sisters, followed by old men poking canes in the dust and joyless matrons with handkerchiefs pressed to their mouths. All buggy horses had long since been requisitioned for the army, so the middling sort and better of the succulents were as sweat-stained as the poor whites, heading to church, or maybe home from it, on the hottest day yet of the year, stepping as handsomely as they could throug...h the dust of an army. Their fashions had not been renewed, Oates had the eye to tell that of a woman, but the only purpose of a skirt, after all, was to be lifted waist-high by a bold man. He would have liked to draw one black-haired creature, especially, up behind his saddle and ride off.
His men were respectful, admirably so, with the girls who looked properly raised, but when they came upon a chippy or two, they called out a range of greetings, most of them amiable. They were a weary, ragged bunch, his men.MoreLess
His men were respectful, admirably so, with the girls who looked properly raised, but when they came upon a chippy or two, they called out a range of greetings, most of them amiable. They were a weary, ragged bunch, his men.MoreLess
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