North And South: The North And South Trilogy - Plot & Excerpts
All but Billy were seasick on the stormy trip to Charleston. They rested a few days at Cooper’s house and improved rapidly. After supper the second evening, Judith entertained them by playing the piano. Then she gathered the guests around her and they had a grand time for almost an hour, singing hymns and popular songs in a rousing way. Everyone took part except Virgilia, who excused herself and went to her room. Mont Royal happened to be in port, loading cotton for New York. Cooper took them through the vessel, pointing out every detail from the sleek clipper bow to the advanced-design propeller. The visitors didn’t understand the engineering innovations as well as their host did, hence couldn’t be quite as enthusiastic, but all of them could appreciate the vessel’s exterior design. She was lean, graceful—unmistakably modern. Next Cooper took them over to James Island, to the acreage he had bought earlier. “What I’m proposing to put here, using my profits from C.S.C. to do it, is a shipyard.
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