Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . atly enjoyed each other, for was young, beautiful and of remarkablemental powers. Frencb literature was herdelight; so great was her admiration for Voltairethat she arranged that on her curious monumentat Mt. Auburn — she died in 1841 — shouldbe no name, only these lines from the work ofthe famous atheist: * As flame ascends, thevital principle ascends to God. She wouldnever allow the canker-worms on her beautifulplace in Cambridge to be molested, saying: Do not injure them; they are our fellow-w
Old Boston days & ways; from the dawn of the revolution until the town became a city . atly enjoyed each other, for was young, beautiful and of remarkablemental powers. Frencb literature was herdelight; so great was her admiration for Voltairethat she arranged that on her curious monumentat Mt. Auburn — she died in 1841 — shouldbe no name, only these lines from the work ofthe famous atheist: * As flame ascends, thevital principle ascends to God. She wouldnever allow the canker-worms on her beautifulplace in Cambridge to be molested, saying: Do not injure them; they are our fellow-worms. Small wonder that honest AndrewCraigie, who had made a fortune as apothecary-general during the Revolution (and had undoubt-edly been married for that fortune by this clevergirl, who was only half his age), did not enjoy 378 OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS hearing such a wife converse with Talleyrandabout he knew not what. For Gilbert Stuart,a great physiognomist, had just said of theFrenchman, who had been visiting his studio:** If that man is not a villain, the Almighty does. CRAIGIE HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE not write a legible hand. Events proved thatTalleyrands evil face did not belie his , whose description of the wily diplo-mats personal appearance has been quoted,tells us that whether the great man could speakEnglish or not when in Boston he declined todo so. He adds that the expression of Talley-rands face was tranquil and his manner that OLD BOSTON DAYS & WAYS 379 of a cool observer. Of what he observed,however, little is known. For the only book thathe published on America had to do with ourcommercial relations to England! Very spicy,no doubt, would be his * Intimate Memoirs had he chosen to write such. Once, when anAmerican lady who had met him at a ball hererecalled to him, in France, the occasion of theirfirst encounter, he shrugged his great shouldersand said that he remembered it perfectly, addingthat though America was a great nation * leurluxe est af
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