Read "Phases of an Inferior Planet" by Ellen Glasgow online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
In time long past, when the Huguenots were better known, if less esteemed, an impecunious gentleman of France left his native land for the sake of faith and fortune.
Lured by that blatant boast of liberty which swelled the throats of the Western colonies, even while their hands were employed in meting out the reward of witchcraft and in forging the chains of slavery, he directed his way towards American soil.