She spoke of Love, a subject that always mystified, when it did not annoy, Caroline and could not be persuaded to tear the leaf from the mystery. Although Caroline had pressed for specific details (the statuary in the Louvre had created a number of confusions, those leaves), the girl had been, maddeningly, spiritual in her report. The girl's highly secret report to Caroline, her best friend, was the only firsthand account that Caroline had ever received from that strange country where men and women committed the ultimate act. Caroline Sanford, the granddaughter of the narrator of Burr and 1876, Charlie Schuyler, is a principal character, along with her half-brother Blaise, as are several important historical personae.Ĭaroline recalled a precocious girl at Allenswood who had actually been seduced. (Novel 4 in the 7-novel "Narratives of Empire" series.)Įmpire, set in 1898-1907, concerns American politics, journalism, and manners in the age of Presidents William McKinley and Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt.
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