Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Mistress Joy: A Tale of Natchez in 1798
The lips which uttered this solemn accusation were those of a little maid, a girl of seven. Her gray eyes were stockaded with a battlement of wondrous lashes, which threw a dusk, unchildish shadow on the childish face. She looked from the rag doll in her lap, whose derelictions she thus gravely announced, off to the wes tering sun, where it lay, a great hot eye, close to the earth. It glared upon them, red and menacing, and painted the way with unnamed, formless terrors.
The horizon was a black line drawn across low marshes, past which the mighty Mississippi wallowed in sinuous sluggishness, like some huge reptile uncoil ing lazily.
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