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Large sections of The Shad Treatment describe Evans's family, beginning with the arrival of an ancestor in 1619. Most of the narrative centers on Stephan Evans, Mac's great-great-grandfather, who built the family fortune through an early ironworks and cannon manufactury for the Civil War. The sections on Stephan Evans, his father, his brother, and his own life before the campaign are mostly good, interesting stories, filled with evocative description; when taken together they help explain Mac and his attachment to Thomas Jefferson Shadwell...
...inept at naming the animals, and the simian creature that he dibs "flounder" has to be fended off with a barbed wire fence. Instead of Satan, SIN features a lithe delinquent called Ssss, who is bad in a soulful rather than a derogatory way. When man's ancestor decides that a maid is more desirable than a mate, the first woman indulges in an illicit love affair with Ssss, multiplying and acquiring the name of Evil (presumably the derivation of Eve) as a result. In short, the situation in paradise runs refreshingly amok for a while. So it's sort...
...Paradine was a Huguenot ancestor who fled to England from Flanders in the 16th century...
Congratulations on your excellent article "White Roots." We at Debrett's Peerage Ancestry are pleased to see that a person is interested to find that an ancestor got into trouble (like President Carter's). Roots go in many directions. H.B. Brooks-Baker, Managing Director Debrett's Peerage Ltd. London
...home the husband is master. The wife undoubtedly exerts influence, especially over the children, with whom she has more contact than does her spouse, but she rarely openly challenges his commands. This is reminiscent of the condition of her even more restricted ancestor, the wife in the harem, who, even if confined and guarded all day long in the harem, intrigued to influence her husband...