Edward Desmond believes he has a scholar’s disdain for money, until a post as tutor brings him to a Mississippi plantation of sloughs, bird dogs and stubborn neighbours. There a young widow, a contested inheritance and his own ambitions test whether he cares as little for wealth as he thinks.
A late novel by the Tennessee writer Mary Noailles Murfree, written under her famous pen name, with a fine ear for Southern talk. Download the free EPUB.