Anna Alice Chapin

Name: The Woman With a Past — II. The Edge of the Wilderness
Author: Anna Alice Chapin

The Woman With a Past — II. The Edge of the Wilderness (1912–14)

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“The Woman With a Past — II. The Edge of the Wilderness”, published in 1912–14, is a work by Anna Alice Chapin. It explores elements such as Monty, New York and Carpenter.

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — II. The Edge of the Wilderness (1912–14)

“ With a pounding heart and a dizzy brain, Monty realized that she was not angry with him for his effrontery. Then she withdrew the cool, tense fingers, and, rising quickly, walked to the open window.
“Listen, you, boy,” she said. “You are a child, standing at the edge of the wilderness. There is Paris outside; that is the wilderness, for it stands for the world—the wild, mad world of joy and pain and life. It is not peaceful and happy and gentle; it is swept by storms and haunted by beasts of prey. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — II. The Edge of the Wilderness (1912–14)

“ Monty did not quite know what it sang to him, but it was something delicious and rather confusing. We are extraordinary creatures of general and mixed impressions. We group numberless separate individual causes into one harmonious composite effect. Thus Monty Crewe massed together the magical spring night outside, the faint echo from the streets, the distant sound of a girl singing in an open-air café chantant, and the sometimes plaintive, sometimes provocative voice of Mrs. Carpenter into one chord of pulse-stirring music. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — II. The Edge of the Wilderness (1912–14)

“ You see, one has chances for a great many adventures and interests in the Far West from time to time, but one doesn't get much afternoon tea. And the women one sees don't wear dark, inconspicuous street gowns, with drooping hats and odorous violets, or speak softly, or ask one to dinner “just to meet a few nice people that you'll like awfully.” In fact, Monty Crewe wanted to “get back”; and here in Paris, in the delicious May season, he was proceeding to do it. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — II. The Edge of the Wilderness (1912–14)

“ Paris was going to Monty Crewe's head, and he liked the sensation.
“You can't know,” he said unsteadily—he had had only three glasses of champagne, and he could drink whisky with any man in the Southwest—“you can't know what it means to me to see and talk to a woman like you—a woman of my own kind, of the class I've come back to. One—one doesn't talk of these things much. People usually make light of them, or run them down, or make fun of them, or say they don't count. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — II. The Edge of the Wilderness (1912–14)

“ All the stuff they call noblesse oblige. At least, I guess that's what I mean,” floundered Monty, his brown face flushing duskily. “Anyway, you stand for—well—for pretty much everything. The nice things that every fellow hangs onto through thick and thin. I—I've been waiting a good while to find some one like—you,” he finished, in a low voice.
Monty was very good to look at. Mrs. Carpenter found him so, but the charm that he had for her was being conquered by a queer, disconcerting call that was sounding from somewhere in space—a call that she had not heard for many years. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — II. The Edge of the Wilderness (1912–14)

“ Others had felt the charm of the little name, as they had felt the charm of herself. Leaning forward, with her beautiful slim hands folded beneath her chin, she looked across the table into Monty Crewe's eyes.
“You don't know women awfully well, do you?” ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — II. The Edge of the Wilderness (1912–14)

“ Once upon a time he had been a spoiled baby in New York, but when he had left college at twenty-two he had gone West and roughed it for nearly four years. The effect upon him had been admirable; he had emerged very much a man, with a boy's high spirits. ”

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