While Head had managed a fair likeness of Banton’s sketch style, especially of the head and general posture, her anatomy was never quite correct when drawing hands and feet. Nevertheless, she did illustrate some of Banton’s own designs as well as sketching for her own designs in the perio...
This etext was produced by Charles Aldarondo (Aldarondo@yahoo.com). THE HERMIT AND THE WILD WOMAN AND OTHER STORIES BY EDITH WHARTON NEW YORK MCMVIII TABLE OF CONTENTS I _The Hermit and the Wild Woman_ II _The Last Asset_ III _In Trust_ IV _The Pretext_
She glanced up at the rack overhead. The thing was there, in her dressing bag, symbolically suspended over her head and his. He was thinking of it now, just as she was; they had been thinking of it in unison ever since they had entered the train. While the carriage had held other ...
The “main reality” newspaper pans and zooms in for a close up of the all-important headline reporting Edith Keeler’s death. The alternative reality newspaper… Ms. Keeler lives, Germany wins WW2, and the timeline that gave the world the Enterprise does not exist. (In a strange twist, t...
After years of regular treatment, she finally became healthy. Two years ago, while Cathy was watching the Olympics, a dream came into her sweet little head to be a swimmer. Last summer, she wanted to___our local swim team. She practiced hard and finally___it. The team practice, however...
Many husbands, I know, find it impossible to join their wives here except for the week-end." She cocked her head on one side and languished at him through screwed-up eyes. "But marriage is one long sacrifice, as I used often to remind my Ellen--"Archer's heart stopped with the ...
of status. Venus resides inMrigashira nakshatra, and is heavily influenced by itsnakshatralord Mars, which is exalted to the maximum degree, and very powerful. (More on that later.) The myths of thisnakshatrainvolve chasing and being chased.Mrigashirais the deer’s head, and is very much...
Proofreaders IN MOROCCO BY EDITH WHARTON ILLUSTRATED 1920 TO GENERAL LYAUTEY RESIDENT GENERAL OF FRANCE IN MOROCCO AND TO MADAME LYAUTEY THANKS TO WHOSE KINDNESS THE JOURNEY I HAD SO LONG DREAMED OF SURPASSED WHAT I HAD DREAMED PREFACE I Having begun my
It was as if the drawing-room reappeared in the mirror as a familiar room in a dream reappears, ghostly, significant, and wiped free of all signs of humdrum and trivial existence. Two crossed books lying flat, the round top of a table, a carved lizard’s head on a clock, the sofa...