{"product_id":"2940013769045","title":"The Carolinian","description":"With compressed lips and an upright line of pain between his brows, Mr.\u003cbr\u003eHarry Latimer sat down to write a letter. He had taken--as he was\u003cbr\u003epresently to express it--his first wound in the cause of Liberty, which\u003cbr\u003ecause he had lately embraced. This wound, deep, grievous and apparently\u003cbr\u003eirreparable, had been dealt him by the communication in the sheets which\u003cbr\u003ehung now from his limp fingers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt had reached him here at Savannah, where he was engaged at the time,\u003cbr\u003enot only on behalf of the Carolinian Sons of Liberty--of which seditious\u003cbr\u003ebody he was an active secret member--but on behalf of the entire colonial\u003cbr\u003eparty, in stirring the Georgians out of their apathy and into\u003cbr\u003eco-operation with their Northern brethren to resist the harsh measures of\u003cbr\u003eKing George's government.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis letter, addressed to him at his Charles Town residence, had been\u003cbr\u003eforwarded thence by his factor, who was among the few whom in those days\u003cbr\u003ehe kept informed of his rather furtive movements. It was written by the\u003cbr\u003edaughter of his sometime guardian, Sir Andrew Carey, the lady whom it had\u003cbr\u003ebeen Mr. Latimer's most fervent hope presently to, marry. Of that hope\u003cbr\u003ethe letter made a definite end, and from its folds Mr. Latimer had\u003cbr\u003ewithdrawn the pledge of his betrothal, a ring which once had belonged to\u003cbr\u003ehis mother.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMyrtle Carey, those lines informed him, had become aware of the\u003cbr\u003etreasonable activities which were responsible for her lover's long\u003cbr\u003eabsences from Charles Town. She was shocked and grieved beyond expression\u003cbr\u003eby any words at her command to discover this sudden and terrible change\u003cbr\u003ein his opinions. More deeply still was she shocked to learn that it was\u003cbr\u003enot only in heart and mind that he was guilty of disloyalty, but that he\u003cbr\u003ehad already e so far as to engage in acts of open rebellion. And at, full\u003cbr\u003elength with many plaints and upbraidings, she .displayed her knowledge of\u003cbr\u003eone of these acts. She had learnt that the raid upon the royal armoury at\u003cbr\u003eCharles. Town in April last had been undertaken at his instigation and\u003cbr\u003eunder his personal direction, and this at a time when, in common with all\u003cbr\u003esave his fellow-traitors, she believed him to be in Boston engaged in the\u003cbr\u003etransaction of personal affairs. She deplored--and this cut him perhaps\u003cbr\u003emore keenly than all the rest--the deceit which he had employed; but it\u003cbr\u003eno longer had power to surprise her, since deceit and dissimulation were\u003cbr\u003eto be looked for as natural in one so lost to all sense of duty to his\u003cbr\u003eking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe letter concluded with the pained assertion that whatever might have\u003cbr\u003ebeen her feelings for him in the past, and whatever tenderness for him\u003cbr\u003emight still linger in her heart, she could never king herself to marry a\u003cbr\u003eman guilty of the abominable disloyalty end rebellion by which Harry\u003cbr\u003eLatimer had disgraced himself for ever. She would pray God that he might\u003cbr\u003eyet be restored to sane and honourable views, and that thus he might\u003cbr\u003eavoid the terrible fate which the royal government could not fail sooner\u003cbr\u003eor later to visit upon him should he continue in his present perverse and\u003cbr\u003ewicked course.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThree times Mr. Latimer had read that letter, and long had he pondered it\u003cbr\u003ebetween readings. And if each time his pain increased, his surprise\u003cbr\u003elessened. After all, it was no more than he should have expected, just as\u003cbr\u003ehe had expected and been prepared for furious recriminations from his\u003cbr\u003esometime guardian when knowledge of his defection should reach Sir\u003cbr\u003eAndrew. For than Sir Andrew Carey there was no more intolerant or bigoted\u003cbr\u003etory in all America. Loyalty with him amounted, to a religion; and just\u003cbr\u003eas religious feeling becomes intensified in the devout under persecution\u003cbr\u003eor opposition, so had the loyalty of Sir Andrew Carey burnt with a\u003cbr\u003efiercer, whiter flame than ever from the moment that he perceived the\u003cbr\u003esigns of smouldering rebellion about him.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070265442544,"sku":"2940013769045","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013769045_p0.jpg?v=1763590029","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013769045","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}