Motion Picture Classic (May 1921 - Dec 1927)

CLASSIC How Women Love ( Continued from page 31) the door and moved into the living-room, confronting her like an incensed turkey cock. “Look here ! What does this mean? You’ve broken your promise, young woman ! I was there .tonight— Gad ! I could hardly believe my eyes — or ears either for that matter ” Rosa interrupted his tirade. “Enough !” she looked scornful, regal, like one of the heroines of opera as she stripped the jewels from her arms and bosom and flung them upon the floor at his feet. “Take them ! They will repay you for what you have spent on me a hundred times over ! And still I broke no promise — the girl who gave you that pledge was not I. Look at me ! Do I seem the same cold, selfish creature who came to you that day two months ago ?’’ He looked at her, and his small eyes grew hot, like red coals. “You’re gorgeous !” he said thickly, and moved toward her, “no, you’re right ! 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