Pagan Blood

Greeting cards and fertility rites collide on this rainy a.m. My reading was certainly tempered by the basketball and that sensation ostensibly understood as the Grammy Awards. That said, I have reached an amazing section of the Foote Narrative.

The North was fighting the South with one hand and getting rich with the other hand behind its back, though which was left and which was right was hard to say. In any case, with such profits and progress involved, whoc ould oppose the trend except a comparitive handful of men and women, maimed or widowed or otherwise made squeamish, if not downright unpatriotic, by hard luck or oversubscription to Christian ethics? (15o)