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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, XIV . one of Thackeray 's women (search)
XIV. one of Thackeray's women
Some years since, there passed away, at Newport, Rhode Island, one who could justly be classed with Thackeray's women; one in whom Lady Kew would have taken delight; one in whom she would have found wit and memory ld do without the necessaries of life, but could not spare the luxuries.
She was an essential part of the atmosphere of Newport; living near the Old Stone Mill, she divided its celebrity and, as all agreed, its doubtful antiquity; for her most inti grotesque, or too juvenile for her to accept as her part, and successfully.
In the modest winter sports of the narrowed Newport circle, when wit and ingenuity had to be invoked to replace the summer resources of wealth and display, she was an indis s of copying and took home a canvas or two with the eyes unpainted, putting them in, colored to please her own fancy, at Newport.
Perhaps she invented this legend for her own amusement, for she never spared herself, and, were she to read this poor
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 21 (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 24 (search)
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