Charmian

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Charmian

kills herself after mistress Cleopatra’s death. [Br. Lit.: Antony and Cleopatra]

See: Suicide

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"How did you vote on the suffrage amendment?" Charmian asked.

"Now just why did you vote for it?" Charmian asked.

"But I thought you were a friend to John Barleycorn," Charmian interpolated.

And Charmian looked at me, and I knew she wondered where I had got it.

I outlined my life to Charmian, and expounded the make-up of my constitution.

I reminded Charmian of the canoe houses from which she had been barred in the South Pacific, where the kinky-haired cannibals escaped from their womenkind and feasted and drank by themselves, the sacred precincts taboo to women under pain of death.

"Why not write all this up for the sake of the men and women coming?" Charmian asked.

"No," said Charmian, ignoring John Barleycorn's roughness, as so many women have learned to do.

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