Anna Alice Chapin,
The Woman With a Past — XV. At the Front
(1912–14)
“ Her hair was hanging in two burnished, dark-red braids to her waist, Above the soft, dull-blue folds of the kimono, her face was colorless and tranquil. In the midst of the danger and confusion she looked ethereal and childlike and strangely quiet. The man lingered, still gazing at her stupidly. ”
Anna Alice Chapin,
The Woman With a Past — XV. At the Front
(1912–14)
“ Some hotel servants came hurrying past; other doors opened; the smell, and a faint, blue dimness of smoke were alike increasing. Pippa turned back into her room and unlocked her jewels. As she did so, she wondered why she bothered. Fire and the peril of it; life and death so close together for a space ”
Anna Alice Chapin,
The Woman With a Past — XV. At the Front
(1912–14)
“ Pippa shuddered as she heard. A child flung madly from a window by a frantic and half-crazed mother; an old woman, bedridden, and vainly praying her daughter to leave her; a little boy, hardly more than a child, going steadfastly back and forth with valuables for those too panic-stricken to do it for themselves ”
