The novel begins with the birth of Theodore Felix Carteret, who embodies Major Carteret's "dearest hope" - "to have children to perpetuate the name of which he was so proud, to write it still higher on the roll of honor" (2). And the historical and socioeconomic meaning of the Carteret family "name" and the Major's desire to "perpetuate" it are succinctly encapsulated some pages later; the Major, now the editor of the Morning Chronicle, is investing "part of his wife's patrimony" in an "enterprise" that promises "immense profits" - "profits which would enable his son, upon reaching manhood, to take a place in the world commensurate with the dignity of his ancestors, one of whom, only a few generations removed, had owned an estate of ninety thousand acres of land and six thousand slaves" (30)...
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The novel begins with the birth of Theodore Felix Carteret, who embodies Major Carteret's "dearest hope" - "to have children to perpetuate the name of which he was so proud, to write it still higher on the roll of honor" (2). And the historical and socioeconomic meaning of the Carteret family "name" and the Major's desire to "perpetuate" it are succinctly encapsulated some pages later; the Major, now the editor of the Morning Chronicle, is investing "part of his wife's patrimony" in an "enterprise" that promises "immense profits" - "profits which would enable his son, upon reaching manhood, to take a place in the world commensurate with the dignity of his ancestors, one of whom, only a few generations removed, had owned an estate of ninety thousand acres of land and six thousand slaves" (30)...
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