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Gustaf grew up on the family estate at Louhisaari, of which Sophia's biographer wrote: "The ceiling of the Church salon is decorated with paintings depicting Admiral Klaus Fleming's sea battles, while the murals of the Devil's Chamber depict a mellower 18th-Century splendor. . . . The park and gardens are especially well planned and cared for. . . . Behind the park glittered the bay of the sea. . . . That this kind of childhood home engendered refinement and sensitivity to beauty in its inhabitants is natural...
...PLACE OF SPLENDOR-Constancia de la Mora-Harcourt, Brace...
...Shrove Tuesday in New Orleans. Early on this Mardi Gras morning, before the white folks' Rex comes in splendor to Canal Street, the Negroes are having their own carnival. Up squalid New Basin glides a barge, canopied in sacking, to the wharf at Rampart Street and Howard Avenue. Off the barge strides the King of the Zulus, right royal in black underwear, a hula skirt of sea grass, a tin crown. His sceptre is a broomstick, topped by a snow-white rooster. Preceding him is his Queen, behind are his capering dukes. The King mounts his throne-a decrepit...
...PLACE OF SPLENDOR-Constancia de la Mora-Harcourt, Brace...
...whole vast length of her life, the trivial with the towering, the bitter with the sweet, as the essential Perfect Woman; married, raising a family, standing at the center of its vicissitudes, learning, at the end, to "believe at last with whole heart in all the dark splendor, all the terrible beauty of the world." Her flawless marriage darkens and dulls, her bachelor friend is lost to death, found again in spirit, her husband dissolves into alcohol and she brings him through, her daughter dies in childbed, the Lusitania sinks, the promising son turns out disappointingly, Harding is elected, widowed...