Both he and Dalton were at home in a half-hour. People in the Old South
then, as in the New South now, are closely united by ties of kinship
which are acknowledged as far as they run. One is usually a member of a
huge clan and has all the privileges that clanship can confer. Kentucky
was the daughter of Virginia, and mother and daughter were fond of each
other, as they are to-day.
After the third dance Harry was sitting with Rosamond Lawrence of
Petersburg in a window seat. She was a slender blonde girl, and the
dancing had made the pink in her cheeks deepen into a flush.
"You're from Kentucky, I know," said Miss Lawrence, "but you haven't yet
told me your town."
"Pendleton. It's small but it's on the map. My father is a colonel in
the Western army."
"Aren't you a Virginian by blood? Most all Kentuckians are."
"Partly. My great grandfather, though, was born in Maryland."
"What was his name, Lieutenant Kenton?"
"Henry Ware!"
"Henry Ware! Kentucky's first and greatest governor."
"Yes, he was my great grandfather. I'm proud to be his descendant."
"I should think you would be."
"But his wife, who was Lucy Upton, my great grandmother, was of Virginia
blood, and all of the next two generations intermarried with people of
Virginia stock.
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