Anna Alice Chapin

Name: The Woman With a Past — IX.—By Way of Experience
Author: Anna Alice Chapin

The Woman With a Past — IX.—By Way of Experience (1912–14)

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“The Woman With a Past — IX.—By Way of Experience”, published in 1912–14, is a work by Anna Alice Chapin. It explores elements such as Pippa, Philippa and tempest.

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — IX.—By Way of Experience (1912–14)

“ He still stared into the fire, and Philippa still stared at him.
A wild burst of wind shook the little hut, sending flurries of snow under the rattling door, but neither of them noticed it. A silence was poised fast between them, and hung so, growing more and more tense every moment.
The night seemed full of voices. Were they warning, menacing, mocking—or all three? The strings of Pippa's life had been tautly strung, and she recognized an urgency that pervaded the atmosphere. She was not in the least afraid of the man. She was never afraid of anything. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — IX.—By Way of Experience (1912–14)

“ He had only gone to a shed near by where the trappers kept wood against just such times of need; he had been gone barely five minutes, yet already Pippa was restless. She was, however, able to realize the quaintness of the situation, and to smile wryly at the way the only man present becomes inevitably The Man upon whom a woman leans. Guide, king, knave, scholar, or fool—it made very little difference, philosophized Philippa—in times of trouble or danger, women were only too willing, like Portia, to let him pass for a man! ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — IX.—By Way of Experience (1912–14)

“ The realization of a new view of life is always rather staggering to the soul, Pippa was more adaptable, more sentient, and more imaginative than most women, and had a bigger outlook and a broader grasp of things; yet she felt as helpless as a little child as she sat there listening to the howling wind, and waiting for the guide to come back. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — IX.—By Way of Experience (1912–14)

“ It had ended in a scramble for this hill shelter, the hut used by divers trappers and lumberjacks through the long winters; and now—well, it looked like an all-night job, at the least of it, said the guide. And all “by way of experience!”
Philippa Carpenter was spending a month in Oregon with the Daltons, people she had met on her world-wide wanderings. The little town of Barrow nestled among the chaos of rugged hills, and filled with the roar of stream that carried the logs down from the mountain forests, had been a tremendous tonic and inspiration to her. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — IX.—By Way of Experience (1912–14)

“ Their eyes met in a long look.
“What sort of a woman are you?” whispered the man, and she felt his tremulous, hard kiss upon her hand.
The next moment both started, and Pippa hid the money inside the loose blouse of her dress. In a lull in the tempest they could hear the sound of clumping footsteps and smothered voices. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — IX.—By Way of Experience (1912–14)

“ There's enough wood in the house here to keep the fire going nearly all night—without counting the table and chairs, all good combustibles.”
The intonation, or the choice of the words, arrested Pippa's imagination. The man must be educated to speak like that. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — IX.—By Way of Experience (1912–14)

“ Pippa cast wildly about in her own mind for some argument that would hold them for a few minutes longer.
“I've heard,” she said slowly, “that when you run the logs down in the spring, there are sometimes dams and breakwaters belonging to other men that you have to break down. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — IX.—By Way of Experience (1912–14)

“ And there was just a hint of accent—— For a moment she forgot the dire straits they were in and surveyed him with a keen interest.
“Please tell me,” she said abruptly—she never wasted time on preliminaries, which was one reason why she always got on better with men than with women—“aren't you English?” ”

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