（外文电子版资料）Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Madelaine 2 - In the Face of Death.pdf

CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO, of Berkeley, California, is an award-winning fantasist perhaps best known for The Saint-Germain Chronicles and other vampire tales, one of which, Advocates, was co-winner of the prestigious World Horror Award for Best Novelette. In the Face of Death, tangentially linked to the Saint-Germain series, describes a plausible period- piece affair between a fascinating vampire and William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891), a West Coast banker who became one of the Civil Wars most important Union generals, second only in importance to U. S. Grant. Shermans military genius was surpassed by his hatred of war; his alleged penchant for bloodiness was a reputation reportedly engineered by his enemies in the South and North. According to Ms. Yarbro, Shermans family was indeed absent from the scene during the period in which her story takes place. I know of no courage greater… than the courage to love in the face of death. -WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN TO QUEEN VICTORIA FROM THE JOURNAL of Madelaine de Montalia San Francisco, 18 May, At last! And only four days la ter than anticipated when we left the mountains. Had I been willing to travel on the river from Sacramento, we would have arrived on the date anticipated… My native earth should be in one of the warehouses, waiting for me, which is just as well, as 1 have got down to less than a single chest of it. My escorts brought me to a very proper boarding-house on Sacramento Street, and have gone on themselves to find suitable lodgings. A Mrs. Imogene Mullinton, a very respectable widow from Vermont, owns this place and takes only reputable single women. She has given me a suite of three rooms at the top of the house, her best, and for it I am to pay $75 a month, or any fraction of a month, a very high price for such accommodations, but I have discovered that everything in San Francisco is expensive. The suite will do until I can arrange to ren