E. L. White

Name: A Stranded Soul
Author: E. L. White

A Stranded Soul (1910)

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“A Stranded Soul”, published in 1910, is a work by E. L. White. It explores elements such as Rosemary, picture gallery and stare.

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E. L. White, A Stranded Soul (1910)

“ There were many forms moving about that dim room, but Lady Rosemary could not take them in at first. Her attention was attracted by a nearer object. Lying on her shoulder, fastening together the folds of a tartan-plaid, was the large silver brooch, whose description she had supplied to Pepper with the accuracy of a lost-property official.
She drew a breath of wonder. Acting on an impulse, she crossed to the dim oval mirror that hung slanting on the wall. She looked at herself. Then she fell back with a cry. ”

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E. L. White, A Stranded Soul (1910)

“ She knew that the picture gallery was near her—around her. Piercing the red shadows of her prison with burning eyes she thought she discerned the filmy outlines of a hat—the hat of a modern woman. But she could not reach it. It was outside!
In a wild fury she strained and tore at the plank. As it finally opened a dark cavity was disclosed. Into the depths they pushed a man—the man with the hunted eyes and dread white face. The bay of the voices outside grew deeper, and the man looked around him at the sound with the stare of a trapped animal. ”

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E. L. White, A Stranded Soul (1910)

“ We’re certainly grown better-looking now. Good crop of hair—not half her own, I'll be bound! And, mercy, what a figure! Imagine her in a Directoire!”
“Should be sorry to,” was the non-committal answer, as the doctor glanced from the sturdy grace and noble proportions of the portrait to the tightly corsetted form of Rosemary.
“Thank Heavens, I didn’t live then,” continued Lady Rosemary complacently. “Those weird clothes don’t give chances. Aren’t they ghastly? That tight, stiff bodice and bulgy skirt, and that plaid arrangement caught up with a brooch the size of a plaster!” ”

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E. L. White, A Stranded Soul (1910)

“ Lady Rosemary stifled a yawn. “What a perfectly ghastly idea! Pity she lived then. She was wasted in those days. She’d make a ripping Suffragette nowadays. Imagine her scrapping with a policeman!”
Her speech jarred on Pepper.
“She was a noble woman,” he said warmly. “What modern woman would have the courage to bear the pain of having her arm forcibly snapped in two. Just think——”
A faint cry from Lady Rosemary interrupted him.
“Don’t, don’t,” she said faintly. “I wish you would stop. You make me think I can feel it. A dreadful pain is shooting up my arm!”
Pepper smiled indulgently. ”

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E. L. White, A Stranded Soul (1910)

“ As she caught the hunted glare of his eyes she felt the swift pang of remorse she had experienced in the midst of the exhilaration and excitement of her first otter hunt. One against many! A pang contracted her heart.
The shadows wiped out the face, and she noticed, with dull curiosity, that two of the maidens were grovelling on the floor, groping among the rushes, which they piled up in high heaps. Then she found she was with them, helping them to raise a plank that gave under her shaking fingers. ”

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E. L. White, A Stranded Soul (1910)

“ The second had passed her by and left her unscathed. She was totally unconscious that to her had been vouchsafed the mystery of a revelation. The revelation of a wandering soul, which, sent spinning through countless ages in its quest of development to Life or Death, had been arrested, for an infinitesimal fraction of space, in its course of retrogradation, and whirled back to the moment when it had attained the zenith of its powers. ”

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E. L. White, A Stranded Soul (1910)

“ Soul
By E. L. White
Illustrated by Percy E. Green
THE painted face on the canvas looked down, with supreme superiority, at the painted face of the lady. Each returned stare for stare, with interest. But the scrutiny of the fifteenth-century portrait was of so piercing a quality that the twentieth-century lady paid her the compliment of putting up her lorgnette, behind which screen of vantage she continued the critical battery.
There was nothing to distinguish Lady Rosemary Vine from any other of the feminine throng that filled the picture gallery. ”

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