Is it because I am such a mixture that I am this rotten creature?-An American grandmother, a French mother, and an English father. I had found her attractive on Wednesday, and after an excellent lunch, and two Benedictines, I was able to persuade myself that her tenderness and passion were real, and not the result of some thousands of francs,-And then when she left I saw my face in the glass without the patch over the socket, and a profound depression fell upon me. Suzette supped with me, here in my appartement last night-When she had gone I felt a beast. There is nothing so interesting to oneself as oneself and journals cannot yawn in one's face, no matter how lengthy the expression of one's feelings may be!Ī clean white page is a sympathetic thing, waiting there to receive one's impressions! Why do people write journals? Because human nature is filled with egotism. Mercifully I have no near relations-Mercifully I am still very rich, mercifully I can buy love when I require it, which under the circumstances, is not often. I look at my mutilated face before I replace the black patch over the left eye, and I realize that, with my crooked shoulder, and the leg gone from the right knee downwards, that no woman can feel emotion for me again in this world.

I am sick of my life-The war has robbed it of all that a young man can find of joy. (A scene from Elinor Glyn's production Man and Maid for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Suzette (Renee Adoree) makes the tedious hours of the wounded Sir Nicholas Thormonde (Lew Cody) seem less monotonous. Obvious typographic and spelling errors have been corrected.ĭiacritical marks are as they appeared in the printed book, and may not reflect current usage.Īll illustrations link to full-size images by clicking on the caption. Several different styles of thought breaks (vertical space, dots, stars, line) have been retained from the original. Where possible, punctuation has been normalized to contemporary standards. Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MAN AND MAID ***

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