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...Corps, whose duty it is to protect the long Italian line back to the coast. In his tent last week he sat reading dispatches, wishing he were further south enjoying the fun in Addis Ababa. Up to his tent rode a bedraggled, bearded native on muleback carrying a twisted twig and a scrap of white cloth. Stiffly dismounting, the blackamoor bowed low to the ground in token of submission. It was Ras Seyoum, onetime ruler of Tigre Province, the "Black Fox of Ethiopia." ablest of the north Ethiopian chieftains. For six months he had held Italy's armies...
...plops it neatly into the fork of a slim tree-branch. She covers the egg with her breast but leaves it occasionally to find food. The young Gygis may, during mother's absence, break out of the shell to find itself alone, teetering on a precarious twig...
...SOME little atom may have taken, in some tiny crossroad of my brain, the wrong turning. Some infinitesimal dead leaf may have lodged itself, in my thought's stream, against some infinitesimal twig, and the consequences may prove incalculable...
...capable. His fortunes are complicated by the presence of Winifred (Katharine Alexander), who has for some time been his mistress and Laura (Alice Brady), who imagines herself to have been his mistress once. These two women scorned, naturally feel internally agitated at being cut out by a more twig, the niece of one, the daughter of the other. Alice Brady, in her role of a flighty and almost mindless but well-meaning woman, is perfectly at home; her lines are among the in the lot, and she delivers them with is which could not is surpassed. Lionel Bartymore, as grouohy...
...minister to everything but a mind diseased, finally gives up, lets him arrange his suicide. Says Peter: "A man's but human. A woman can rise above being human seemingly; but I never met the man that could." One morning he is found dead in a hedge; a twig might have pulled his shotgun's trigger. Avis bears up, has her baby, goes on being dauntless. To Midwinter, on vacation this time, she has the nerve to tell the whole story, guessing he will let bygones be. How her infant son will turn out, hints Author Phillpotts, will...