Through stained glass

Project Gutenberg's Through stained glass, by George Agnew ChamberlainThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Through stained glassAuthor: George Agnew ChamberlainRelease Date: November 14, 2004 [EBook #14039]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: Unicode UTF-8*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THROUGH STAINED GLASS ***Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Dorota Sidor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.THROUGH STAINED GLASSA novel byGEORGE AGNEW CHAMBERLAINAuthor of "Home"New York Grosset & Dunlap PublishersCopyright, 1915, byGEORGE AGNEW CHAMBERLAINPublished March, 1915CHAPTER IIn 1866 the American minister at Rio de Janeiro turned from the reality of a few incongruous and trouble-breedingKentucky colonels, slouched-hatted and frock-coated, wandering through the unfamiliar streets of the great SouthAmerican capital, and saw a nightmare. There is a touch of panic in the despatch which he sent to Mr. Seward at a timewhen both secretary and public were held too closely in the throes of reconstruction to take alarm at so distant a chimera.Agents of the Southern States, wrote the minister, claimed that not thousands of families, but a hundred thousandfamilies, would come to Brazil.As a matter of fact, this exodus, when it took ...