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Resting place of many of America's most distinguished dead among them Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Sumner, Edward Everett, Louis Agassiz, Phillips Brooks, Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Booth, Charles W. Eliot, Julia Ward Howe and Mary Baker Eddy. Noted for its famous statues and monuments, including those of John Winthrop, John Adams, James Otis and Joseph Story. The Sphinx, the work of Martin Milmore, is a greatly-admired statue. Open daily...
Like other fashionable young ladies, Julia fancied her own tastes in literature, music and the arts; but. perhaps because of her scattered schooling, her spelling was not up to snuff. "Asparagrass . . . tasted diliciously"; to forward swains she could be "very fridged indeed''; of one Hooker Hammersly she states: "He is not the man for My Sister by a long short." She must have read even her favorite authors with half an eye: "I have just read Mrs Gasgells life of Charlotte Brontë, & enjoyed it immensely, almost as much as Jane Ayer." But she was often a shrewd...
...Julia lived in an exciting world, and knew it. She heard Adelina Patti sing, was carried away by Johann Strauss's conducting, thrilled to Col. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte's eyewitness account of Balaclava, wrote exclamation-filled pages on the Franco-Prussian War, and mourned, as even a poor little rich girl could, the Chicago Fire which swept away their grand house, her studio with its private staircase...
...opportunity to carry out his dishonorable intentions. Pen, jilted by a naval officer, married Bob out of pique. When the rich aunt died she left them very little, and they had a hard time. Soon Bob realized he should have married null No. 5, his sister-in-law Julia, a placid and motherly Jewess. Pen, after presenting him with Woman No. 6, his daughter Barbara, pined for snappier society and insisted on divorcing...
...hard as a soldier, did so well that he was finally promoted to major, put in command of a Negro battalion, all venereal cases. Solace in these trying times was Woman No. 7, Bella, lusty wife of a shriveled colonel. Demobilized, Bob went back to San Francisco, married Julia and settled down. Then Bella appeared again, lured him away. But when she took to drink he was disgusted with her. Bella, creature of impulse, shot him in the stomach. The nurse at his deathbed was none other than Dixey, his old college...