Anna Alice Chapin

Name: The Woman With a Past — VI.—The Scotch Embassy
Author: Anna Alice Chapin

The Woman With a Past — VI.—The Scotch Embassy (1912–14)

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“The Woman With a Past — VI.—The Scotch Embassy”, published in 1912–14, is a work by Anna Alice Chapin. It explores elements such as Pippa, Charles Stuart and Fulham.

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — VI.—The Scotch Embassy (1912–14)

“ It is true, England is not what it was two hundred years ago, but it is still the sovereign power—the symbol for which men should be as willing to live as to die. Do you not know that every time an Englishman forgets to be honorable, forgets to be just, forgets to be courteous, forgets to be a gentleman—do you not know, young sir, that the whole shield of England takes on a touch of tarnish? If you do not know, take heed now, for it is I, Charles Stuart, who tell you!”
“And why on earth should you tell me?” said Fulham, with an ugly look. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — VI.—The Scotch Embassy (1912–14)

“ These obsessions of the spirit—is it not paradoxical and strange that it is given to such women as Pippa, and to such alone, to understand them? It seems that to comprehend truly the passionless in its most exquisite depths, one must have plumbed and exhausted the abysses of passion.
It is certain that Philippa Carpenter understood to the last breath and pulse Charles Stuart's sentiment for her, and that she found a tender rest in the poetry of it—an ineffable relief from the throb of that violent emotion which, is, in its very essence, without end or solace. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — VI.—The Scotch Embassy (1912–14)

“ Fantasies and dreams, they spun themselves into a silken and silver web about the Scotch Embassy; and Pippa loved the dreams and wept over them, because they seemed vaguely suggestive of a requiem—a requiem in which Charles Stuart figured, yet not as one who had died.
In all of us is the need for play acting—for the irresponsible engrossment of games. One may take it out in social fencing, or in those little masquerades one acts with oneself, or one may starve it and grow old betimes—but it is there hidden in us all. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — VI.—The Scotch Embassy (1912–14)

“ Outside the Scotch Embassy, Pippa's world was growing complicated. She escaped thankfully to the bare, big room with the dais, and the melancholy and gallant King Charles in his gilded frame. Fulham was becoming importunate. He had, as I have intimated, his caddish side. Women in Pippa's equivocal position were apt to discover it. He saw no further reason for finesse. This woman, all eyes and hair, with alabaster skin and a voice of gold—why should he not make love to her? She had been known to permit such things.
He was ridiculously jealous of her interest in Charles Stuart. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — VI.—The Scotch Embassy (1912–14)

“ Charles Stuart sat in the great chair in the twilight, and said no word as the room grew darker and darker. After a great while he spoke, and his voice was just a thread of sound in the spring dusk.
“Loveliness, shall we know each other on the other side?”
Pippa started slightly. “The other side!” she repeated. “What has set you to thinking such sad thoughts—sire?”
“They are not sad thoughts, sweet Countess Loveliness,” said the old man gently. “Death has always been a friendly figure to me—as to all of my house. I know no one of us that has met him without a smile. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — VI.—The Scotch Embassy (1912–14)

“ The man, incredible as it might seem to her, meant to destroy one of the old man's pet illusions—the illusion of his lady's worthiness. Pippa knew that he clung to her and the cobweb vision he had made of her, as he could never have clung, in hot youth, to mortal woman, be she ever so ardent. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — VI.—The Scotch Embassy (1912–14)

“ Fulham, staring after him, saw that the old servant was holding the door open.
He was dismissed.
“This is preposterous,” growled Fulham furiously. “An old impostor——”
“Is he so surely an impostor?” Pippa asked quietly. The Englishman stared at her, frankly surprised.
“But—naturally!” he exclaimed. “Surely you do not believe him to be the rightful King of England.”
“I know very little of right or wrong where kings are concerned,” Philippa said, with perfect gentleness. “I think most people know very little. It seems a matter of chance, largely. But I think he is—Charles Stuart.” ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — VI.—The Scotch Embassy (1912–14)

“ A minute later Charles Stuart had entered the room. He was arrayed in the garments of his grandfather's time, and looked at last—thought Pippa—well dressed. What hope to make a modern of a man like this? ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — VI.—The Scotch Embassy (1912–14)

“ He was a fresh skinned young Englishman, who laughed often—not always too intelligently, or with the most scrupulous taste, but with a ready heartiness that caused men at his clubs to call him a jolly good sort. ”

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Anna Alice Chapin, The Woman With a Past — VI.—The Scotch Embassy (1912–14)

“ She came often to see her old new friend. She no longer called it the Scotch Embassy—it was Charles Stuart's house; and the simplicity of this phrase pleased her. It seemed better suited to royalty than more ornate expressions. For she accepted his royalty as unquestioningly as 1f he had sat on his throne in London Town. ”

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