Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-02-08
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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-
tion was impregnsble. Ii had IN edge
of gilt and a full morocco binding;
it was eighteen carat; the real thing;
a 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 a the heels Of the hard
riding Swamp Fox and helped TO per
the unlucky CORVALLIS into the bear
trap at Yorktown. but other ancestor
more remote had braved red warriors
from Virginia stockades and pursued
them into the rank tangles back or
the Chesapeake. for the greater glory
OF the king. and the greater safety OF
the sucking colonies. long before ever
n Washington had trodden a elsa tlan-
tic shore. Now these things be but
vanity. Il may be. but Marguerite Car
roll hugged them not the less 20 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: 4 face and figure that artists
raved over; a crown ofshining hair that
seemed n thicket TO entangle even Gu
pid himself.
q 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 10
New York and her grandmother
winter visit long enough 10 make her
an admired spectator at the horse
show or the opera. Then she would
fee 10 California or the Riviera: 20 the
City OF Mexico or up the Nile; any
where aer fancy pleased. dragging
along by gilded chain her cousin.
Julia Henshaw. and some conventional
chaperon Of eminent rcspeoia bihtT
and impartial blindness.
Nevertheless, however much one
might think TO the contrary. Margue-
rite Carroll was as wholly dissati tisfied
with existence as could be a woman
who possessed neither wealth nor
health, birth nor beauty. She did eE-
actly as she wished, yet would have
preferred 10 be one mans loving slave
She loved the world, yet would rather
have been shut within some cage Of
home. subject TO the beck and call of a
lord and master. Her soul was starved
for love. She sighed for the heart ties
OF an adOrer whom she could herself
adore-and found it not. The ennul
OF a safety which has drunk up the
wine OF pleasure until one looks upon
the very bottom Of the glass possessed
her restless spirit and rendered petus
liant her strenuous nature, hungry for
love Under the blue ice Of her habit
nal demeanor smouldered sapphire
Passions needing only vent to rise to
devouring volcanic flames
WoOers, yes. In scores, she had had.
and toyeG 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 OF
her undenisble but marble beauty.
She had no soul. all her suitors said, "a
one by one they relinquished the SEEM
tngly impossible task of kinsing a fire
upon the frigid altar of her heart.
Therefore, at last. from the crucible
OF her discomfort. of her increasing
years, of the unrequited cravings of a
nature ardent at the core, had
emerged a woman who sought to re-
venge herself upon mankind by art
fully awakening passions she aid not
return. by arousing hopes she nur.
, tnred only that she might uproot. She
declared secret war against the race
of what Nine. Sarah Grand has dubbed
"mere man." and pursued her cam
psigns vindietively. Since II was de-
nied 10 her. alone among women, to
find the soul mate she would select. she
would at least be happy In the making
OF mankind miserable.
Thus 1t was. as the season waned.
that Miss Carroll. her consiu Julia. the
discreet Mrs. Sylvester Beaumont
their travelling sacrifice to the propri
cites. hurrying eastward from a sum-
mer voyage TO the great Muir glacier.
Sitka and Alaskan waters. stopped AZ
Minneapolis 10 catch their breath. and
that Marguerite decided to rest for a
week amid the enchanting autumn
restfulness Of the Mipnetonka shorea
They fenDd at the great Hotel st.
Louis half emptied house and the
quiet the imperious mistress Of The lit
lie company had 90 suddenly and ca
prtciously sought.
II was glorious there. The cxcnic
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