The actors in this drama are dead, or else life has turned them into such different beings that their transformation is hardly less than that of death itself. Their thoughts are scattered to the winds, or live, oddly changed, in the bodies of their children-the girl who brought me the journals and packages of letters smiled up at me with the flashing smile of Ellen. This girl, with a gesture of the hand, opened for me the gates of the past, and when she was gone I walked through them with beating heart, back over the steep ...
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The actors in this drama are dead, or else life has turned them into such different beings that their transformation is hardly less than that of death itself. Their thoughts are scattered to the winds, or live, oddly changed, in the bodies of their children-the girl who brought me the journals and packages of letters smiled up at me with the flashing smile of Ellen. This girl, with a gesture of the hand, opened for me the gates of the past, and when she was gone I walked through them with beating heart, back over the steep path of years. This little package of long-forgotten papers which she had given me, and of whose contents she was ignorant, were a strange legacy, for it was my own youth that I found in them and the youth of Ellen.
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Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Alice Barber Stephens. Erasable pencil gift inscription on front fly. Modest general wear and a bit of spotting, spine slightly toned with a tiny tear at the crown, very good. Vorse was also a journalist, labor and peace activist, and suffragist. She was a member of the Greenwich Village "Heterodoxy" and cofounder of the Woman's Peace Party.