Fates And Traitors
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
—William Shakespeare,Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7 Only the most desperate pecuniary circumstances would have compelled Mary to rent out the Surratt Tavern and Inn in Prince George’s County in southern Maryland and move to the Yankee capital, but by the autumn of 1864, she resigned herself to the harsh, bitter truth that she had no other choice.
It seemed that all her life misfortune and cruelty had pursued her from one unhappy home to anot...her. When she was still quite young, she had become unwelcome in her childhood home after abandoning her mother’s Episcopalian faith to convert to Roman Catholicism. As soon as she had come of age, her mother’s smoldering resentment had compelled her to flee into marriage. Though John Surratt had been ten years her elder and had fathered an illegitimate son with another woman, the prospect of future happiness he had dangled before her had been preferable to remaining another night beneath her mother’s roof, so she had seized it, and gratefully.MoreLess
—William Shakespeare,Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7 Only the most desperate pecuniary circumstances would have compelled Mary to rent out the Surratt Tavern and Inn in Prince George’s County in southern Maryland and move to the Yankee capital, but by the autumn of 1864, she resigned herself to the harsh, bitter truth that she had no other choice.
It seemed that all her life misfortune and cruelty had pursued her from one unhappy home to anot...her. When she was still quite young, she had become unwelcome in her childhood home after abandoning her mother’s Episcopalian faith to convert to Roman Catholicism. As soon as she had come of age, her mother’s smoldering resentment had compelled her to flee into marriage. Though John Surratt had been ten years her elder and had fathered an illegitimate son with another woman, the prospect of future happiness he had dangled before her had been preferable to remaining another night beneath her mother’s roof, so she had seized it, and gratefully.MoreLess
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