Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-26
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 WATERLOO By WInnIHM BnOSS.
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American women ever dream of in their hopes, or hope for in their dreams. To continue, her social posi- tion was impre gnable. It had an edge of gilt and full morocco binding; it was eighteen carat; the real thing; very Kohinoor among social posi- tions. Mistress Marguerite Antoinette Carroll was not only a Daughter of the American Revolution but a Colonial Dame as well, not only had ancestors of hers Haunted their curls through the Carolinas at the heels of the hard riding Swamp Fox and helped to pen the unlucky Cornwallis into the bear trap at Yorktown, but other ancestors more remote had braved red Warrlors from Virginia stockades and pursued them into the rank tangles back of the Chesapeake, for the greater glory of the king, and the greater safety of the suckling colonies, long before ever a Washington had trodden cisatlan- tic shore. Now these things be but vanity, it may be, but Marguerite Car roll hugged them not the less to her heart, and held high her head because of them. But let us proceed with thls schedule of possessions.
 Item: An education which em- braced familiar knowledge with half the capitals and courts of Europe.
 Item: A face and figure that artists raved over; crown ofshining hair that seemed a thicket to entangle even Gu pid himself.
 Item: Miss Carroll was her own mistress, having neither parent nor guardian nor trustee, to coerce her humors or advise her vagaries.
 She resided, when she felt like it, with her Uncle Henshaw and her aunt, in Washington Sometimes she paid to New York and her grandmother a winter visit long enough to make her an admired spectator at the horse 1 show or the opera. Then she would I flee to California or the Riviera; to the 4 City of Mexico or up the Nile; any where her fancy pleased, dragging along by a gilded chain her cousin, 1 Julia Henshaw, and some conventional chaperon of eminent responsibility and impartial blindness.
 Nevertheless, however much one might think to the contrary, Margue- rite Carroll was as wholly dissatisfied with existence as could be a woman l who possessed neither wealth nor health, birth nor beauty. She did eX- actly as she wished, yet would have preferred to be one mans loving slave. l She loved the world, yet would rather have been shut within some cage of 1 home, subject to the beck and call of a j lord and master. Her soul was starved for love. She sighed for the heart ties I of an adorer whom she could herself adore-and found it not. The ennui I of a satiety which has drunk up the wine of pleasure until one looks upon the very bottom of the glass possessed her restless spirit and rendered petu- lant her strenuous nature, hungry for love. Under the blue ice of her habit ual demeanor smouldered sapphire passions needing only vent to rise to devouring volcanic flames.
 Wooers, yes. in scores, she had had X and toyed with archly, but not one had come benath whose mask of words and conventional protestations she had not read, or fancied she could read the insincerity of the hunter of for tunes, the perfunctory laudation oi her undeniable but marble beauty She had no soul, all her suitors said as one by one they relinquished the seem ingly impossible task of kindsing fire upon the frigid altar of her heart.
 Therefore, at last, from the cruciblt of her discontent, of her increasing years, of the unrequited cravings of g nature ardent at the core, hat emerged a woman who sought to re Il |, 1,o1yi o1,f fully awakening passions she did no1 return, by arousing hopes she nur tured only that she might uproot. She declared a secret war against the race of what Mime. Sarah Grand has dubbed 'smere man." and pursued her cam paigns vindictively. Since it was de nied to her, alone among women, tt find the soul mate she would select, sht would at least be happy in the making of mankind miserable.
 Thus it was, as the season waned that Miss Carroll, her cousin Julia thu discreet Mrs. Sylvester Beaumon their travelling sacrifice to the propri cities, hurrying eastward from sum mer voyage to the great Muir glacier Sitka and Alaskan waters, stopped a
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 that Marguerite decided to rest for
 week amid the enchanting autumn restfulness of the Minnetonka shores They found at the great Hotel St } Louis half emptied house and tn,
 quiet the imperious mistress of the lit
 lie company had so suddenly and ca
 priciously sought.
 It was glorious there. The ozoni
 airs sweeping the hill-pinnacled cara
 vansery were rarest medicines fo
 weariness. The vagrant shore line , spread about the broadening vista o
 the queen of lakes fed the eye wit varying beauties to which the wood
 ed margin, touched by autumn's mas
 ter brush, lent the chromatic splendor
 of the Kaleidoscope. Marguerite an her rod became familiars of the ris ing sun. Along the winding dir
 roads of old Hennepin she enjoye
 many an afternoon gallop betwee
 the radiant walls of the turnin : leaves. As the day fell, winddrive excursions to the tree-crowned dam
 of Big Island, haunted by legend, c : through the narrows to the rougne , waters of the expanded lake, lent
 closing zest to days with natur
 When the copper shield of the ha
 vest moon rose a flaming disc 1n u
 east and the many-stringed orchestl hidden in the palms of the great we anda wooed concord, they sat
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