Show U t f Margaret By Weston Vernon WERE I permitted to re-christen re the Margaret that takes a part in the tragedy of King Richard III I would make her name the feminine of Moses Not that she had any Israelites to lead out of bondage but that like that ancient prophet she was endowed with the gift of cursing of pronouncing and calling forth plagues Not general troubles like those that devastated Egypt but individual ones as dire to those they fell upon as were the famous Ten I Margaret maJ makes s her appearance in inthe inthe inthe the play playas as the distant accompaniment of a sad refrain very noticeable and I touching while we hear it but forgotten as soon as gone In her presence we acknowledge her claims we sympathize with her in her grief and recognizing the depth of the wron wrong she endures we almost praise the reaction her a ability to curse curse but engrossed with other characters characters characters charac charac- almost as soon as her exit exi t is made we cease to think of her and her wrongs It is far otherwise with her Wherever she chances to be whether lurking around the tower or living a life of retirement in France we find her like Tam Tarn sullen dame Gathering her brows like gathering storm Nursing her wrath to keep it warm If revenge is really sweet or if the misfortunes of an enemy nemy really brin bring pleasure to the offended one would almost think Margarets Margaret's later life to have been happy having lived to see w her enemies reduced to a a state even r worse than her own But either the thet t maxim is untrue or else human w wants y can ne never er be satisfied for Margaret left the stage stag apparently as she entered it i saying I am hungry for revenge f. f |