Transcriber's Notes
- Where possible, punctuation has been normalized to contemporary standards.
- Several different styles of thought breaks (vertical space, dots, stars, line) have been retained from the original.
- Obvious typographic and spelling errors have been corrected.
- Diacritical marks are as they appeared in the printed book, and may not reflect current usage.
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MAN AND MAID
Suzette (Renee Adoree) makes the tedious hours of the wounded Sir Nicholas Thormonde (Lew Cody) seem less monotonous. (A scene from Elinor Glyn's production "Man and Maid" for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
MAN AND MAID By ELINOR GLYN
A. L. BURT COMPANY Publishers New York Published by arrangement with J. B. Lippincott Company Printed in U.S.A. |
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY ELINOR GLYN
MAN AND MAID
February, 1918.
I am sick of my life—The war has robbed it of all that a young man canfind of joy.
I look at my mutilated face before I replace the black patch over theleft eye, and I realize that, with my crooked shoulder, and the leg gonefrom the right knee downwards, that no woman can feel emotion for meagain in this world.
So be it—I must be a philosopher.
Mercifully I have no near relations—Mercifully I am still very rich,mercifully I can buy love when I require it, which under thecircumstances, is not often.
Why do people write journals? Because human nature is filled withegotism. There is nothing so interesting to oneself as oneself; andjournals cannot yawn in one's face, no matter how lengthy the expressionof one's feelings may be!
A clean white page is a sympathetic thing, waiting there to receiveone's impressions!
Suzette supped with me, here in my appartement last night—When shehad gone I felt a beast. I had found her attractive on Wednesday, and6after an excellent lunch, and two Benedictines, I was able to persuademyself th