Thunder
on
the
Left
THUNDER ON THE LEFT
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COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY HAR-
PER & BROTHERS. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
TO
S. A. E.
The undertaking a comedy not merely sentimental was very dangerous.
On parla des passions. “Ah! qu’elles sont funestes!” disait Zadig. — “Ce sont les vents qui enflent les voiles du vaisseau,” repartit l’ermite: “elles le submergent quelquefois; mais sans elles il ne pourrait voguer. La bile rend colère et malade; mais sans la bile l’homme ne saurait vivre. Tout est dangereux ici-bas, et tout est nécessaire.”
“Your mind had to be tormented and fevered and exalted before you could see a god.”
“It was cruel of you to do this,” she said.
In the Land of Youth.
THUNDER ON THE LEFT
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