CHAPTER XVIII.
THE GREEN DOOR The coach of Mrs.Jane Selden entered Charlottesville at nine in the morning, and did not turn homeward again until the afternoon stood at four.

The intermediate hours were diligently used by the small and withered lady in plum-coloured silk and straw bonnet, scarf of striped, apple-green gauze, and turkey-feather fan.

She came to town but once in three months, and made of each visit a field day.

Every store was called at, for buying must be done for herself and her plantation to last until Christmas-tide.

Lutestring, calico, chintz and prunella, linsey and osnaburg; gilt-edged paper, sticks of wax, and fine black ink; drugs of sorts, bohea, spice, and china were bought and bestowed in brown paper parcels in corners of a vehicle ample as Cinderella's pumpkin coach, while Jamaica sugar and Java coffee, old rum, molasses, salt and vinegar, hardware, kitchen things, needs of the quarter, and all heavy matters were left to be called for by her wagon next day.