90 SHEPHEKDSTOWN, ON THE POTOMAC. 



attractions as mere temptations of the enemy, the individual South- 

 erner was liked and admired. 



At the Summer resorts to which Southerners flocked in those days, 

 it was he whose haughty grace troubled the peace of the Northern 

 belle. Her dreams and her confidences were not of the homely but 

 faithful lover, who, happily unaware of the serpent that was threat- 

 ening his Paradise, was working for her, far away in some hot and 

 noisy city, but of "a young Southern physician," or "young Southern 

 planter," as she persisted in calling him, though he called himself 

 plain "farmer." Luckily for the far away lover, the "young South- 

 ern planter" usually "loved and rode away" and neither she nor her 

 real lover were the worse, even though in moments of sentiment or 

 discontent she seldom failed in later days to entertain her husband 

 with the story of the "young Southern planter, " which gathered in- 

 terest and even volume with time. 



But the visitor from Massachusetts to Maryland, somehow, did 

 not find the Southerner so agreeable, either collectively or individally. 

 Their grand airs irritated, and, if he was young and home-bred, 

 abashed him. Accustomed to the carefully guarded but not neces- 

 sarily " stingy" regime of his own home, their lavish hospitality and 

 ostentatious waste bewildered and horrified him — used as he was to 

 doing eveiything by clockwork; to rise, breakfast, go to business, 

 dine, sup, and go to bed, at exactly the same moment, almost since 

 he could remember, here he wa's in a country where in many houses 

 there was no clock — a sun dial perhaps, or an old negro who could 

 tell the time, within half an hour or so, by the sun ; where people 

 took breakfast when they were dressed and ready for it, dined at 

 noon, and had supper when they were hungry — perhaps having to 

 wait until they were Very hungry, but taking that easily and as a 

 matter of course when the cook chose to give it to them. Knowing, 

 or thinking that he knew himself to be superior to them in every- 

 thing, except the art of making life pass easily and pleasantly, he yet 

 had an uneasy suspicion that he was being sneered at and looked 

 down upon, his ways and ideas considered narrow, and himself vul- 

 jgaa-. 



What I have here set down was the result partly of my own obser- 

 vation during the next few months (explained, I am well aware by 

 my later experience), and partly picked up in the course of many long 



