Dear Abigail: The Intimate Lives and Revolutionary Ideas of Abigail Adams and Her Two Remarkable Sisters by Diane Jacobs

Author:Diane Jacobs [Jacobs, Diane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-345-54984-6
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2014-02-25T05:00:00+00:00

Abigail did not, she on a happier note concluded, worry about Nabby’s choice in a spouse.46

The reaction from home was univocal. John Quincy was so relieved his sister had escaped the horrible fate of marrying Royall Tyler (of whom he’d heard worse than his mother could imagine from people whose honor was beyond dispute) that almost anyone seemed preferable. “I rejoice, I greatly rejoice,” Mary agreed, and Elizabeth too spontaneously expressed her approval, then wrapped herself in her literary mantle and in one of her loveliest passages informed Abigail why Nabby had fallen in love again so soon:

I consider the human Mind something like a musical Instrument, where if any of the Notes are silent, or out of tune, it produces a vacuum, a discord, which interrupts the harmony of the whole Machine. The Mind when once touched by the tender Passion of Love, and set to certain number of Ideas, will never after be in Unison, unless it find some Object capable of vibrating those delicate Keys. And experience informs us, that it does not require so great an Artist to put an Instrument in Tune, as it did at first to form one.47

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