Name: The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories
Author: Ethel M. Dell
ISBN: 978-1374815841

The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories

By Ethel M. Dell 13 Sep, 2019

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Excerpt.......A great shout of applause went through the crowded hall as the Dragon-Fly Dance came to an end, and the Dragon-Fly, with quivering, iridescent wings, flashed away. It was the third encore. The dance was a marvellous one, a piece of dazzling intricacy, of swift and unexpected subtleties, of almost superhuman grace. It must have proved utterly exhausting to any ordinary being; but to that creature of fire and magic it was no more than a glittering fantasy, a whirl too swift for the eye to follow or the brain to grasp. "Is it a boy or a girl?" asked a man in the front row. "It's a boy, of course," said his neighbour, shortly. He was the only member of the audience who did not take part in that third encore. He sat squarely in his seat throughout the uproar, watching the stage with piercing grey eyes that never varied in their stern directness. His brows were drawn above them—thick, straight brows that bespoke a formidable strength of purpose. He was plainly a man who was accustomed to hew his own way through life, despising the trodden paths, overcoming all obstacles by grim persistence. Less

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