VIRGINIA
By ELLEN GLASGOW
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
MCMXIII
Copyright, 1913, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
All rights reserved, including that oftranslation into Foreign Languages,including the Scandinavian.
TO
THE RADIANT SPIRIT
WHO WAS
MY
SISTER
CARY GLASGOW
MC CORMACK
VIRGINIA
CONTENTS
BOOK FIRST—THE DREAM
CHAPTER I. The System
CHAPTER II. Her Inheritance
CHAPTER III. First Love
CHAPTER IV. The Treadwells
CHAPTER V. Oliver, the Romantic
CHAPTER VI. A Treadwell in Revolt
CHAPTER VII. The Artist in Philistia
CHAPTER VIII. White Magic
CHAPTER IX. The Great Man Moves
CHAPTER X. Oliver Surrenders
BOOK SECOND—THE REALITY
CHAPTER I. Virginia Prepares for the Future
CHAPTER II. Virginia's Letters
CHAPTER III. The Return
CHAPTER IV. Her Children
CHAPTER V. Failure
CHAPTER VI. The Shadow
CHAPTER VII. The Will to Live
CHAPTER VIII. The Pang of Motherhood
CHAPTER IX. The Problem of the South
BOOK THIRD—THE ADJUSTMENT
CHAPTER I. The Changing Order
CHAPTER II. The Price of Comfort
CHAPTER III. Middle-age
CHAPTER IV. Life's Cruelties
CHAPTER V. Bitterness
CHAPTER VI. The Future
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
BOOK FIRST
THE DREAM
CHAPTER I
THE SYSTEM
Toward the close of a May afternoon in the year 1884, Miss PriscillaBatte, having learned by heart the lesson in physical geography shewould teach her senior class on the morrow, stood feeding her canary onthe little square porch of the Dinwiddie Academy for Young Ladies. Theday had been hot, and the fitful wind, which had risen in the directionof the river, was just beginning to blow in soft gusts under the oldmulberry trees in the street, and to scatter the loosened petals of