Excerpt from A Son of the Old Dominion Flower had pulled up on the road at a point where the wood opened into a bosky dell, its grassy carpet sprinkled with blue blossoms of the fairy flax. In the tangle of tender leaves and bracken surrounding this sylvan nook, sprang so many wild pink azaleas and tall blue lupines, under branches starred with the ivory disks of dogwood, he could hardly be expected to distinguish among them the blossom face of a girl, who, upon hearing him approach, had resolved to lie perdue until he should pass on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.