Having been born in Paris, Carolina tried to make the best of it, but being a very ardent little American girl, she always felt that her foreign birth was something which must be lived down, so when people asked her where she was born, her reply was likely to be: "Well, I was born in Paris, but I am named for an American State!" Then if, in a bantering manner, her interlocutor said: "Then, are you a Southerner, Carolina?" the child always replied: "My father says we are Americans first and Southerners second!" Colonel ...
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Having been born in Paris, Carolina tried to make the best of it, but being a very ardent little American girl, she always felt that her foreign birth was something which must be lived down, so when people asked her where she was born, her reply was likely to be: "Well, I was born in Paris, but I am named for an American State!" Then if, in a bantering manner, her interlocutor said: "Then, are you a Southerner, Carolina?" the child always replied: "My father says we are Americans first and Southerners second!" Colonel Yancey, himself from Savannah, upon hearing Carolina make this reply commented upon it with unusual breadth of mind for a Southern man, with: "I wish more of my people felt as you do, little missy. Most of my kinfolk call themselves Southerners first and Americans second and are prouder of their State than of their country."
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Add this copy of Carolina Lee to cart. $4.79, good condition, Sold by Garage To Dollars rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Massena, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1907 by A. Wessels Company.
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Keith, Dora Wheeler. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Good Plus-structurally intact, pages slightly off-white, light soil and wear, some edge and corner wear on cover, owner inscription. 352 p. Chapter One begins: "Having been born in Paris, Carolina tried to make the best of it, but being a very ardent little American girl, she always felt her foreign birth was something which must be lived down....
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Dora Wheeler Keith. Good/No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 5th imp. 352pp. 8ad. Cream bds. Titles in brown to front and spine. Vig to 2/3 front in gilt, blue, brown & red. Coloured frontis. Foxing, corners bumped, spine faded. Light waterstain to first 100 pages in bottom RH corner-does not impinge on text.
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