CHAPTER IXOn Sunday the whole plantation went to Church. The n*****s sat in the gallery and listened with rapt attention to the service. They joined its ritual and its songs with their white folks in equal sincerity and more profound emotion.
At the crossroads the stream of carriages, carts and buggies and horseback riders parted. To the right, the way led to the Episcopal Church, the old English establishment of the State, long since separated from secular authority, yet still bearing the seal of county aristocracy. Colonel Lee was a devout member of this church. Mrs. Lee was the inspiration of its charities and the soul of its activities.
A few of the n*****s of the estate attended it with the master and mistress of Arlington. By far the larger number turned to the left at the cross ro
