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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, I: Inheritance (search)
with an heiress whose estate marched with her own, had no fancy for a penniless American bride. The chilly atmosphere of this English home soon drove forth the pleasureloving captain, and the homesick child-wife beguiled her solitary hours, both here and in other lonely places in which she was stranded in later years, by reading and study. Life for this wandering couple was a constant kaleidoscope. At one time, Mrs. Storrow was the centre of attraction in the gay and corrupt society of Halifax where her cousin, Sir John Wentworth, was high in power; and again she was undergoing great suffering and hardship imposed by the fortunes of war. That she was a spirited lady we may judge from a letter to her sister, in which she speaks thus of a certain arbitrary brother in whose house she had been staying: I had rather live with a Hottentot just escaped from the Caffres coast! Another instance of this quality occurred after the couple had made their home on the island of Campobello in