| Sapphira and the Slave Girl Contributor(s): Cather, Willa (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798643477884 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Romance - General - Fiction | African American - Historical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.4 lbs) 130 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Breakfast Table, 1856.Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife-beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table. At noon, the dinner hour, he was often detained down at the mill. His place was set for him; he might come, or he might send one of the mill-hands to bring him a tray from the kitchen. The Mistress was served promptly. She never questioned as to his whereabouts.On this morning in March 1856, he walked into the dining-room at eight o'clock, -came up from the mill, where he had been stirring about for two hours or more. He wished his wife good-morning, expressed the hope that she had slept well, and took his seat in the high-backed armchair opposite her. His breakfast was brought in by an old, white-haired coloured man in a striped cotton coat. The Mistress drew the coffee from a silver coffee urn which stood on four curved legs. The china was of good quality (as were all the Mistress's things); surprisingly good to find on the table of a country miller in the Virginia backwoods. Neither the miller nor his wife was native here: they had come from a much richer county, east of the Blue Ridge. They were a strange couple to be found on Back Creek, though they had lived here now for more than thirty years |