The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-09-16
SENTINEL THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1875
in All the wild coast country. That these
br liant proteges OF

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br liant proteges OF
THE HAUGHTIEsT ARIsToCRAcY
of the old regime should be destined to exer-
else the fatal influence they exerted on the
men who loved them, and made them their
wives, is indeed surprising. But they were
/ flirts from their cradles. Born to admire
ton, their lives were spent from youth to
maturity in an atmosphere OF fictitious ser
timent and unreal passion. They looked
upon men as merely the ministers OF pleas
ures, and as q medium thrOu ID which their
fiattered vanity might grow and expand, as
the flower blooms in the warmth of the sun
shine All the aims and duties Of life were
| bounded by the ambitions Of society. Adml-
ration TO them was appreciation. Taught to
regard their individual pleasures as superior
to all considerations of convenience to
others, it Is not surprising that
sel6shness, indifference and folly became
the IpaiDsprings to their actions. Nor Is 1t
astonishing that they exercised the latal
influence they did upon men. Their beauty
was glorious. The youngest was the living
| type of the other two. AS this writer saw
her but little over q year ago, she rises
before his vision now, tall, graceful,
slender woman, a 1.-the, willowy form of
splendid contour and exquisite symmetry.
The oval, tinted face CLOVIS with health and
is radiant with intelligence. Deep, slunn-
/ berous black eyes, unfatbomable in their
depths, which a word can kindle with
excitmen or make aglow with passions; a
eueenly woman, Tegnant IN youth, grace
and the empire of mons hearts. The rich
/ coils of hair, black and intense, were wound
above the low, broad forehead and formed
rayen-like crown to the dusky
sPLESDoR OF THE EGYPTIAN FACE.
Men paused to look at her and women
sighed with envy as she passed. What she
was in her youthful bridshood has been im-
perfectly described; what her sisters were
/ in their matured and splendid womanhOod
the enthusiasts imagination alone can pic
/ ture. And now for the story Of their lives.
/ The oldest sister was married to DIR. Sharp,
OF Tuscaloosa, Ala, polished, graceful
gentleman, whose love and devotion might
have contented any woman less prone to
the allurements Of society and the admira-
| ton of men. 1t was in the first year of the
war, and the most brilliant society in the
South was gathered at Mobile and New Or
leans. With an appetite whetted to fever
heat by few months abstinence from social
/ pleasures, she plunged Tecklessly into
a whirlpool OF gaiety. The married
/ flirt wears no srmor of innocence. Her
love of admiration is pitted against mans
| Guplicity and cunning. She staked and
| lost. From folly there is but one step to
| imprudence, and that step was taken, de-
spite a husbands jealousy and sense of
/ honor. The end was inevitable; challenge
and duel, and her husband fell pierced 10
| the heart by the bullet of her seducer.
! There was no pity for woman like this; So
ciety repealed hsr, her friends discarded her,
and she fed 10 New Orleans to lead the life
of an adventures. The second sister shortly
siterwsrd married the son of distinguished
| journalist in Mobile. The fate of nsr elder
sister was no bar to career of similar
| folly. Society received her with open arms.
Wealth, influential connections and ALI
auce with distinguished family obscursd
| for time the recOllectiOns OF sisters i'm
prudence. But gossip soon grew busy with
| her name.
| FROM ONE FOLLY TO ANOTHER
she passed with fatal haste and seeming in
difference, until in a fatal hour her husband
learned that the woman he loved, the wife
| that he idOlized, was a thing to be scorned.
! lt broke his heart. With the downfall OF
| his idol, his reason wavered, and he persisted
by mis- own hand. For all his brilliant tai
snts, and the promise of a splendid woman
ne died the victim of e woman's perfdy.
The younger Sister became the wife of Bien
venue, young broker of New Orleans
! Rich, beautiful and accomplished. she was
az once leader in scciety. Courted, fiat
| tered and carsssed, she plunged headlOne
into the vortex. Men lavished praises upon
| her-womsn hated and smiled upon her
| What cared she? beautiful, reckless
hesrEless and Indifferent to all alike
she cared only for that social admiration
Whlcn was the SUNSHINE OF her lie. Hel
large fortune gave her an income in her in.
dividusl right. This gave wings to her ex-
travagance and enabled her to contract bills
in her own name. One ofthem-a milliner',
bill-waS overdue, suit was brought and ex
ecution issued which Mr.. Phillips, the law
yer, had levied for satisfaction upon her car
rage and horses. In an interview subs
quently had with the lady, regarding th'
settlement of the bill, words which she con-
strueI into an insult, were charged upon the
attorney. Her husband resented it-a chsl-
lenge ensued-and then the fatal duel OIL
that sad April morning, whsn husbands
life ebbed away its purple tide upon tbs
lonely beach, the last unhappy victim of tbs
fatal sisters folly and extravaganza.