Shelby Foote Quote
Who can tell? Together, with God’s blessing — which surely He will not withhold — you may perhaps be laying the groundwork, the foundation for a future Athens, an Athens of the South. Yes. And this young woman’s child, so soon to be born, he added, indicating Ella with a deferential nod, will be one of its leading citizens, the one perhaps under whom it will come to flower, a beacon for the South, a torch held out.
Shelby Foote
Who can tell? Together, with God’s blessing — which surely He will not withhold — you may perhaps be laying the groundwork, the foundation for a future Athens, an Athens of the South. Yes. And this young woman’s child, so soon to be born, he added, indicating Ella with a deferential nod, will be one of its leading citizens, the one perhaps under whom it will come to flower, a beacon for the South, a torch held out.