Anna Alice Chapin

Name: The Woman With a Past — I. The Ghost Makers
Author: Anna Alice Chapin

The Woman With a Past — I. The Ghost Makers (1912–14)

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“The Woman With a Past — I. The Ghost Makers”, published in 1912–14, is a work by Anna Alice Chapin. It explores elements such as ghosts, Carpenter and Pippa.

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — I. The Ghost Makers (1912–14)

“ Very quietly, and in the sort of voice that comes from too deep a spring within us to be heard often, Philippa talked of the ghosts that haunt humanity.
“Don't you know,” she said, looking deeply into the dark eyes, “that half our lives we are making ghosts? Ghosts that will walk and walk, till the very end?”
Evelyn stared at her as though hypnotized. They had both forgotten the faces and the lights. The tea grew cold between them.
“Some of them,” said Pippa Carpenter, “are quite little, the ghosts we make—goblin ghosts that one would never believe had the power to truly hurt us. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — I. The Ghost Makers (1912–14)

“ Carpenter, versed in most branches of emotional knowledge, could see that the child—she was a child intrinsically, whether she was nineteen or twenty-seven, married or a school-teacher—had somehow worked herself, whether by progression or retrogression, one could not say at first sight, into a mood of heroics. For a space she was clearly the heroine of her own drama, a fatal rôle for any woman under fifty—or even sixty, in these well-preserved days. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — I. The Ghost Makers (1912–14)

“ Carpenter, Pippa of the big, empty heart, felt thrilled with pity for her. One's emotions in one's first dramas are so bitterly, terribly keen, the more so because one has written the parts oneself, and knows so tragically well how they must be played! ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — I. The Ghost Makers (1912–14)

“ She was a very pretty woman—French in type, pale-faced, dark-lashed, red-haired, violet-eyed—exquisitely soignée from head to foot, with languid, lovely hands as slim as a child's, and as caressingly savante as a courtesan's. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — I. The Ghost Makers (1912–14)

“ Evelyn half rose from her chair. She was clearly frightened. “Oh,” she gasped, “you make me feel as though there were ghosts here now, as you speak!”
”There are,” said Pippa Carpenter. “There are the ghosts of all my mistakes, little and big—the foolish, small goblin ghosts that went with the foolish, small lies and the foolish, small indiscretions at the beginning, and other great ghosts that are monsters, and storm clouds, blotting out the sun.”
“You talk so strangely,” said Evelyn, staring at her. “I never heard a woman talk like you before. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — I. The Ghost Makers (1912–14)

“ She had very dark, velvety eyes, the sort that goes as a rule with a soft, emotional nature, and rippling dark hair. Her mouth was a little blurred in outline. Life would harden it later, but for the moment the Cupid's bow of it was a thought too melting of line. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — I. The Ghost Makers (1912–14)

“ The cards that fate had dealt her were a bundle of letters which the dark-eyed girl had left on the desk. Most of them were in opened envelopes, postmarked, and so on; one was freshly sealed and stamped, and had not yet been through the mails. The canceled envelopes were all addressed to “Mrs. Theodore Martin,” or “Mrs. T. E. Martin.” So she was married, after all! The other was directed, in the dashing, almost illegible hand which was fashionable for a few years in a certain débutante set, to “Miss Carol Wainright,” at a New York address. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — I. The Ghost Makers (1912–14)

“ But later, after we have begun to grow wise and have almost forgotten that we were ever foolish, we will be walking along quite safe and content in the sun, with flowers growing on each side of the path, and a clean air in our faces, and suddenly, around a bend, will come one or maybe two or three of the goblin ghosts that we made long ago. ”

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