The contrast made the thrill all the keener and longer.

Colonel Talbot, also, was swayed by emotion, but his was that of one who was coming home.
"I was born here, and I passed my boyhood here," he said.

"I could not keep from loving it if I would, and I would not if I could.

Look how the cold North melts away.

See the great magnolias, the live oaks, and the masses of shrubbery! Harry, I promise you that you shall have a good time in this Charleston of ours." They had left the railroad some distance back, and had come in by stage.
The day was warm and pleasant.