A Kentucky Cardinal and The Mettle of the Pasture (Illustrated)

A Kentucky Cardinal is American writer, James Lane Allen's third novel. It was in 1894 as the first of the A Kentucky Cardinal series.

The Mettle of the Pasture

She did not wish any supper and she sank forgetfully back into the stately oak chair. One of her hands lay palm upward on her white lap; in the other, which drooped over the arm of the chair, she clasped a young rose dark red amid its leaves-an inverted torch of love. Old-fashioned glass doors behind her reached from a high ceiling to the floor; they had been thrown open and the curtains looped apart. Stone steps outside led downward to the turf in the rear of the house.