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    The Damsel and the Sage: A Woman's Whimsies
    The Damsel and the Sage: A Woman's Whimsies
    The Damsel and the Sage: A Woman's Whimsies
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    The Damsel and the Sage: A Woman's Whimsies

    By Elinor Glyn

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    The Damsel and the Sage: A Woman's Whimsies is a short story by Elinor Glyn. Glyn was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialized in romantic stories. Excerpt: "The Damsel sat down upon the rock and came again to her own conclusions. The stone that apparently was a Topaz was in reality a yellow Diamond of great rarity and worth, and that was why the woman valued it so highly. Her instincts were stronger than her reason. But if she had not made herself so cheap by adoring the stone, it would not have become restless and she would not have lost it. Even stones cannot stand too much honey. If ever the woman should find this yellow Diamond again she must be told to keep it in a cool box and not caress it or place it above the others."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 16, 2019
    ISBN4064066193980
    The Damsel and the Sage: A Woman's Whimsies
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    Elinor Glyn

    Elinor Glyn was a British writer best known for pioneering mass-market women’s erotic fiction and popularizing the concept of the “It Girl,” which had a profound influence on 20th century popular culture and the careers of Gloria Swanson and Clara Bow. In addition to her work as a scriptwriter for silent movies, Glyn was one of the earliest female directors. Elinor Glyn’s elder sister was fashion designer Lady Duff-Gordon, who survived the tragic sinking of the Titanic. Over the duration of her career Glyn penned more than 40 works including such titles as Three Weeks, Beyond the Rocks, and Love’s Blindness. Elinor Glyn died in 1943.

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      The Damsel and the Sage - Elinor Glyn

      Elinor Glyn

      The Damsel and the Sage: A Woman's Whimsies

      Published by Good Press, 2019

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066193980

      Table of Contents

      THE DAMSEL AND THE SAGE

      By MRS. HUMPHRY WARD

      HENRY SETON MERRIMAN

      By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

      By JOHN FOX, Jr.

      A tree stood alone surrounded by high and low hills. It could be observed from all sides, and it appeared different from each elevation.

      The tree was the same, only the point of view differed.

      Everything depends upon the point of view.

      And as to the meaning, it's what you please.

      "C. S. C."

      THE DAMSEL AND THE SAGE

      Table of Contents

      A

      nd the Damsel said to the Sage:

      Now, what is life? And why does the fruit taste bitter in the mouth?

      And the Sage answered, as he stepped from his cave:

      My child, there was once a man who had two ears like other people. They were naturally necessary for his enjoyment of the day. But one of these ears offended his head. It behaved with stupidity, thinking thereby to enhance its value to him—it heard too much. Oh, it conducted itself with a gross stupidity. 'Out upon you,' cried the man; 'since you have overstepped the limit of the functions of an ear, I shall cut you from my head!' And so, without hesitation, he took a sword and accomplished the deed. The poor ear then lay upon the ground bleeding, and the man went about with a mutilated head.

      And what was the good of all that? said the Damsel.

      There was no good in it, replied the Sage. But he was a man, and he had punished the too-fond-and-foolish ear—also he hoped a new and more suitable one would grow in its place. 'Change,' he said, 'was a thing to be welcomed.'

      And tell me, Sage, what became of the ear? asked the Damsel.

      "The ear fared better. Another man of greater shrewdness came along, and, although he

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