Beyond the Rocks
Rodolph Valentino, as Lord Bracondale and Elinor Glyn,the author.Beyond the Rocks
A Love Story
by
Elinor Glyn
Author of"Three Weeks"
With illustrationsFrom the Paramount Photo-Play
Produced byFamous Players-Lasky Corp.
starringGloria Swanson with Rodolph Valentino
New YorkThe Macaulay Company
Printed in the U.S.A.
ILLUSTRATIONS
| FACING PAGE | |
| Rodolph Valentino, as Lord Bracondale and Elinor Glyn, theauthor | Frontispiece |
| "She Wondered What Love Was—" | 8 |
| "Once Upon a Time There Was a Fairy Prince and Princess—" | 96 |
| What Could He Say to Her— | 314 |
Beyond the Rocks
I
The hours were composed mostly of dull or rebellious moments during theperiod of Theodora's engagement to Mr. Brown. From the very first shehad thought it hard that she should have had to take this situation,instead of Sarah or Clementine, her elder step-sisters, so much nearerhis age than herself. To do them justice, either of these ladies wouldhave been glad to relieve her of the obligation to become Mrs. Brown,but Mr. Brown thought otherwise.
A young and beautiful wife was what he bargained for.
To enter a family composed of three girls—two of the first family, onealmost thirty and a second very plain—a father with a habit ofaccumulating debts and obliged to live at Bruges and inexpensive foreignsea-side towns, required a strong motive; and this Josiah Brown foundin the deliciously rounded, white velvet cheek of Theodora, the thirddaughter, to say nothing of her slender grace, the grace of a youngfawn, and a pair of gentian-blue eyes that said things to people in thefirst glance.
Poor, foolish, handsome Dominic Fitzgerald, light-hearted, débonairIrish gentleman, gay and gallant on his miserable pension of a brokenand retired Guardsman, had had just sufficient sense to insist uponmagnificent settlements, certainly prompted thereto by Clementine, whoinherited the hard-headedness of the early defunct Scotch mother, aswell as her high cheek-bones. That affair had been a youthfulmésalliance.
"You had better see we all gain something by it, papa," she had said."Make the old bor