The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-03-06
CUPID AT
WATERLOO
BY WInnIHM BnOSS.
MISTRESS MARGUERITE AN
VI TOINETTE CARROLL was a So

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phIsticated and wholly worldly person
of six or seven and twenty years.
To begin, she had money, more
money than any single woman needs;
more money than forty millions of
American women ever dream of in
their hopes, or hope for in their
dreams. To continue, her social posi-
ton was impregnable. 1t had an edge
Of gilt and full morocco binding;
it was eighteen carat; the real thing;
a very Kohinoor among social posi-
lions. Mistress Marguerite Antoinette
Carroll was not only Daughter Of the
American Revolution but 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 CORVALLIS into the bear
trap at Yorktown, but other ancestors
more remote had braved red warriors
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 sucking colonies, long before ever
Washington had trodden a cisatlan-
tic shore Now these things be but
vanity. it may be, but Marguerite Car
roll Rugged them not the less TO her
heart, and held high her head because
Of them. But let us proceed with this
schedule of possessions.
Item: An education which en-
braced familiar knowledge with half
the capitals and courts of Europe
Item: A face and figure that artists
raved over; a crown ofshining hairthat
seemed a thicket to entangle even Gu
bid himself.
Item: Miss Carroll was her own
mistress, having neither parent nor
: guardian nor trustee, to coerce her
! humors or advise her vagares.
She resided, when she felt like it,
with her Uncle IIenshaw and her aunt.
: in Washington Sometimes she paid to
New York ard her grandmother a
] winter visit louc enough to make her
: an admired spectator at the horse
] show or the opera. Then she would
/ fee to California or the Riviera; to the
s City Of Mexico or up the Nile; any
, where her fancy pleased. dragging
! along by a gilded chain her cousin
Julia Henshaw, and some conventional
, chaperon of eminent speciality
and impartial blindness.
Nevertheless. however much one
p might think to the contrary, Margue.
. rite Carroll was as wholly dissatisfied
t with existence as could be a woman
7 who possessed neither wealth MOI
health, birth nor beauty. She did eX
S actly as she wished, yet would have
6 preferred to be one mans loving slave
a She loved the world, yet would rather
g have been shut within some cage o.
Il home. subject to the beck and call of {
lord and master Her soul was starved
o for love. She sighed for he heart ties
Of an adorer whom she could hersel-
q adore-and found il not. The emu
p of a safety which has drunk up the
wine of pleasure until one looks upor
I the very bottom Of the glass possessed
|, her restless spirit and rendered petu
q LIANT her strenuous nature, hungry for
:. love. Under the blue ice of her habit
. ual demeanor smouldered sapphire
! passions needing only vent to rise tC
- levouring volcanic flames.
: Wooers, yes, in scores, she had had
i, and toyed with archly, but not on,
,. had come benath whose mask of word
a.. and conventional protestations sh
,, had not read, or fancied she could read
! the insincerity of the hunter of for
g., tunes, the perfunctory laudation o
y her undenabe but marble beauty
-. She had no soul, all her suitors said, a
! one by one they relinquished The seem
y ingly impossible task of kndHng a fir,
upon the frigid altar of her heart.
- Therefore, at last, from the crucibl
of her discontent Of her increasin!
= years, Of the unrequited cravings of
:, nature ardent at the core, hat
emerged a woman who sought to re
y venge herself upon mankind by art
fully awakening passions she did no
" :, return, by arousing hopes she nur
. tured only that she might uproot Sh
u declared n secret war against the rae
: Of what Nine Sarah Grand has dubbet
Il "mere man." and pursued her cam
" paigns vindictively. Since it was de
q MED to her, alone among women. t
u find the soul mate she would select, sh
would a. least be happy in the making
y Of mankind miserable.
Thus it was, as the season waned
=, that Miss Carroll, her cousin Julia. tn
discreet Mrs. Sylvester Beaumont
L their travelling sacrifice to the propri
y cites, hurrying eastward from a sum
mer voyage to the great Muir glacier
Sitka and Alaskan waters, stopped a
e Minneapolis 10 catch their breath, an
) that Marguerite decided to rest for
week amid the enchanting autumn
I, restfulness Of the Minnetonka shores
is They found at the great Hotel 81
is Louis a half emptied house and tn
e quiet the imperious mistress of the Iii
lie company had so suddenly and ca
l. priciously sought.
It was glorious there. The ozoni
|. airs sweeping the hill-pinnacled cara
vansery were rarest medicines fo
WEAKNESS. The vagrant shore line