Sublime

She reads Thoreau over wood fires at night.

Flagler, however, was delighted with his good fortune. He and Mary Lily were married on August 24, with Flagler joined this time to a woman who was by all accounts his social and intellectual equal, and who would prove a faithful companion through the rest of his days.

The few hardy settlers who lived there near the turn of the century had been enticed by land speculation syndicates at work everywhere in the wild southern half of Florida, groups of businessmen who stood to make their fortunes by seeing such frontier lands settled. Those who moved to Fort Dallas to seek their fortunes were interested in encouragin

“If you’re ever in Cody, Wyoming,” said Billy Pilgrim behind his white linen screens, “just ask for Wild Bob.”

Hemingway and Fitzgerald each went his own way that summer, 1925. Ernest and his wife Hadley journeyed to Pamplona for the running of the bulls, Scott and Zelda to the south of France.

Flagler spared no expense to make his new wife happy. As she had once remarked that she had always wanted “a marble palace,” Flagler built one for her: a mansion overlooking Lake Worth, which they named Whitehall, and which was to become a fabled center of the Palm Beach social scene.

Harpers.