ess of Bolton Hall, etc. But now she was placed too far above him.
Sick at heart, he stood aloof while they all paid their court to her.
But by-and-by he felt it would look base and hostile, if he alone said
nothing; so he came forward, struggling visibly for composure and manly
fortitude.

The situation was piquant; and the ladies' tongues stopped in a moment,
and they were all eyes and ears.

THREE MONTHS AMONG THE RECONSTRUCTIONISTS.

I spent the months of September, October, and November, 1865, in the
States of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. I travelled over
more than half the stage and railway routes therein, visited a
considerable number of towns and cities in each State, attended the
so-called reconstruction conventions at Raleigh, Columbia, and
Milledgeville, and had much conversation with many individuals of nearly
all classes.

I.

I was generally treated with civility, and occasionally with courteous
cordiality. I judge, from the stories told me by various persons, that
my reception was, on the whole, something better than that accorded to
the majority of Northern men travelling in that section. Yet at one town
in South Carolina, when I sought accommodations for two or three days at
a boarding-house, I was asked by the woman in charge, "Are you a Yankee
or a Southerner?" and when I answered, "Oh, a Yankee, of course," she
responded, "No Yankee stops in this house!" and turned her back upon me
and walked off. In another town in the same State I learned that I was
the first Yankee who had been allowed to stop at the hotel since the
close of the war. In one of the principal towns of Western North
Carolina, the landlord of the hotel said to a customer, while he was
settling his bill, that he would be glad to have him say a good word for
the house to any of his friends; "but," added he, "you may tell all
d----d Yankees I can git 'long jest as well, if they keep clar o' me";
and when I asked if the Yankees were poor pay, or made him extra
trouble, he answered, "I don't want 'em 'round. I ha'n't got no use for
'em nohow." In another town in the same State, a landlord said to me,
when I paid my two-days' bill, that "no d--n Yankee" could have a bed in
his house. In Georgia, I several times heard the people of my hotel
expressing the hope that the passenger-train wouldn't bring any Yankees;
and I have good reason for believing that I was quite often compelled to
pay an extra price for acc