The Night Court And Other Verse

Author : Ruth Comfort Mitchell
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ISBN 13 : 9781331083009
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Night Court, and Other Verse (Classic Reprint) written by Ruth Comfort Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Night Court, and Other Verse "Call Rose Costara!" Insolent she comes. The watchers, practised, keen, turn down their thumbs. The walk, the talk, the face - that seashell tint, - It is old stuff; they read her like coarse print. Here is no hapless innocence waylaid. This is a stolid worker at her trade. Listening, she yawns, half smiling, undismayed, Shrugging a little at the law's delay, Bored and impatient to be on her way. It is her eighth conviction. Out beyond the rail A lady novelist in search of types turns pale. She meant to write of them just as she found them, And with no tears or maudlin glamour round them, In forceful, virile words, harsh, true words, without shame, Calling an ugly thing, boldly, an ugly name; Sympathy, velvet glove, on purpose, iron hand. But eighth conviction! All the phrases she had planned Fail; "sullen," "vengeful," no, she is n't that. No, the pink face beneath the hectic hat Gives back her own aghast and sickened stare With a detached and rather cheerful air, And then the little novelist sees red. From her chaste heart all clemency is fled. "Oh, loathsome! venomous! Off with her head! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.