Chapter 18

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌​‌​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​⁠Col. Grangerford was a gentleman, you see. He was a gentleman all over; and so was his family. He was well born, as the saying is, and that’s worth as much in a man as it is in a horse, so the Widow Douglas said, and nobody ever denied that she was of the first aristocracy in our town; and pap he always said it, too, though he warn’t no more quality than a mudcat himself. Col. Grangerford was very