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...heart is a dark forest where...
...guttural imprecations, showing that the little girl from the convent is tampering with a wicked fellow. The difficulty of her position is that the buccaneer has scruples about innocent girls. But she overcomes these. Enchanted Isle. While a willowy debutante strives to elude an effete Italian Count, the robust forest ranger comes on from the West. He is a tenor; she a soprano. Passion's progress is recorded rather musically in "Close in Your Arms," "Voice of the High Sierras," "Enchanted Isle" and other duets. Ida Hoyt Chamberlain, concert singer, wrote it all-book, lyrics, music-and her friends...
...mind, always she was held apart from them by the high wall between the bright gardens. They have for her at first the unreality, the incongruity, the strange definiteness of the people in her dreams and thoughts; they are close and unapproachable like strange voices overheard in a forest. Then the strangeness but not the glamor fades; she is bored by friendly, clumsy Martin; pities shy, remote, hedonistic Julian; loves Roddy, who is suave and erratic, quiet and incalculable. After that summer of reacquaintance she goes away to Cambridge...
...forest, and her grace and beauty belonged to the forest, while I, for good or bad, belonged to the world of men, and to this I must return. So I contented myself with giving her a photograph of myself? it was a passport photograph and revealed my beauty?and one kiss...
Last week at the National Singles Tennis Championship at Forest Hills, Long Island, William T. Tilden II tried for a record. He tried to match William A. Larned's list of seven national championships. Tilden has six. Last year Henri Cochet of France robbed him of his chance to tie R. D. Sears's record, seven successive championships; Rene Lacoste be- came 1926 champion...