His manners were perfect, and his courtliness was that of a typical southern gentleman of the highest type.
His features were regular and clear cut, his hair black and closely cropped, while his eyes were of a steel gray, reflecting a strong and loyal character, filled with fire and initiative. He was a splendid specimen of manhood, standing a good two inches over six feet, broad of shoulder and narrow of hip, with the carriage of the trained fighting man. We all loved him, and our slaves fairly worshipped the ground he trod. He seemed always to be laughing and he entered into the sports of the children with the same hearty good fellowship he displayed toward those pastimes in which the men and women of his own age indulged or he would sit for an hour at a time entertaining my old grandmother with stories of his strange, wild life in all parts of the world.
I was then a child of but five years, yet I will remember the tall, dark, smooth-faced, athletic man whom I called Uncle Jack. My first recollection of Captain Carter is of the few months he spent at my father’s home in Virginia, just prior to the opening of the Civil War. What can I say? It's what Virginians and most southern Americans do.In submitting Captain Carter’s strange manuscript to you in book form, I believe that a few words relative to this remarkable personality will be of interest. He sounds exactly right, despite being one serious butcher of spoken English. However, of all the readers, he sounds a lot like an actual, back water, basackwards, Virginian and not British or television American. So, if you're big on exacting pronunciation, forget about it, Peter Delloro is not ever going to be your guy. Words such as "stygian" become "st(eye)gian" and "succor" becomes "sue-core" instead of "suckor". Even should a Virginian have a large vocabulary, it is often that they still do not know how to speak them properly. While this is not true of all Virginians, it is true of most so, the reading kinda fits. I found it appropriate because, having lived near Virginia, southern people have absolutely no idea how to speak words properly. However, it should be noted that, Peter Delloro's performance is chocked full of mispronounced words. I enjoyed this and the first two books, as well as the performance.
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