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...those individuals from whom Charlestonians had learned to expect misery-a "dark" Chantrell, like her twin brother, Stephen. In him their hot strain from a Latin ancestor was provided with a safety outlet; his temper could boil over. Cordelia was mistress of her intensities, to her great misfortune, and it was she who resolved a grave dilemma into happiness for Stephen and tragedy for herself, tragedy punctuated by two pistol shots...
...With the dark Chantrells nothing was regarded as insuperable between them and what they wanted. A feud between Chantrells and Penmarches only heightened Stephen's determination to have Sally Penmarch, and the betrothal of Preston Baimbridge, the one man Cordelia had fixed upon, to Sally Penmarch "fazed" Cordelia no whit, even on the wedding morning. As her diary shows, she was calm in desperation and when she saw Sally slip off for a last canter alone, she sent Stephen after her with a mixture of humor and impatience. When Stephen failed to dissuade Sally, who loved him, really, after...
Stephen and Sally later eloped, settling in Nassau, whence Stephen sailed over the world in the Chantrell & Chantrell ships, and whither Cordelia went, still a fierce dark beauty in her mid-twenties, as The Messenger, President Jeff Davis's special agent, to discover what Yankee spy was betraying Confederate munitions smugglers. When this spy proved to be Preston Baimbridge, as faithful to his Northern cause as was Cordelia to her love for him, the second pistol shot was the only thing possible, fired by Preston Baimbridge into his own head...
...effects in interior decoration, to which the overworked adjectives listed above are perhaps irresistibly applicable. There is, of course, a heart-rending chapter on "Antiques for a Song," consisting largely of anecdotes, but there is also a cheerful chapter, highly sanative, on "New American Furniture," which faces squarely the dark facts that the Mayflower had room for only a certain number of knickknacks and that imitations have grown more commendable ever since. Another chapter solves problems for young-marrieds, with a five-year program for feathering the nest. All that is (see adjectives above) in chintzes and cretonnes, flounces...
Over the side of the S. S. Homeric, panting off Quarantine in New York Harbor, was swung a dark-bodied, white-winged seaplane labeled Moth upon its slender thorax. The wings were unfolded and passengers jammed the Homeric's rails to watch Sir Alan and Lady Cobham of England skim off to circle Manhattan and dip to a reception committee waiting on an upriver pierhead. But the Moth would not rise. Built for still-water work, her pontoons could not cope with the heavy groundswell that was running. She had to be towed forlornly ashore behind...