The Romantic

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Romantic, by May SinclairThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The RomanticAuthor: May SinclairRelease Date: August 25, 2004 [EBook #13292]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ROMANTIC ***Produced by Suzanne Shell, Beginners Projects, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading TeamTHE ROMANTICBY MAY SINCLAIR1920Every kind and beautiful thing on earth has been made so by some cruelty.Saying of the RomanticCONTENTSBOOK ONE Charlotte RedheadBOOK TWO John Roden ConwayTHE ROMANTICBOOK ONECHARLOTTE REDHEADIThey turned again at the end of the platform.The tail of her long, averted stare was conscious of him, of his big, tweed-suited body and its behaviour, squaring andswelling and tightening in its dignity, of its heavy swing to her shoulder as they turned.She could stave off the worst by not looking at him, by looking at other things, impersonal, innocent things; the bright,yellow, sharp gabled station; the black girders of the bridge; the white signal post beside it holding out a stiff, black-banded arm; the two rails curving there, with the flat white glitter and sweep of scythes; pointed blades coming together,buried in the bend of the cutting.Small three-cornered ...