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As she leaned against t...)
Excerpt from As the Hart Panteth
As she leaned against the column and began playing, his face, old and worn with many griefs, seemed, for a moment, rejuvenated by the spirit of his lost youth. His heart stirred strangely within him, and he was minded of another slim, little girl, who came down to the gate to meet him when the day was done in the long ago. She had the same glorious hair, and tender, fear less eyes and love for him. But that was more than forty years gone by and she was dead.
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Hallie Erminie Rives (May 2, 1874 – August 16, 1956) was a best-selling popular novelist. Rives wrote her first novel at age eight, though her writing was not encouraged by her parents. Her first novel was published when she was eighteen. In her novels she addressed politics between the Northern and Southern United States, issues of race, and sex, causing great debate among critics. Among them was Smoking Flax (1897), a novel controversial even at the time, which takes a favorable position on lynching. The novel is about an African American man accused of raping and murdering a white woman who was lynched after the governor commuted his sentence to life. Many of her novels were bestsellers. Other books she wrote were better received by critics than Smoking Flax. In this book: Satan Sanderson The Kingdom of Slender Swords The Long Lane's Turning The Valiants of Virginia Tales from Dickens
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(Excerpt from A Fool in Spots
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They were seated tete-a-tete at a dinner table. Tell me why you have never married, Milburn, and the steel eyes in Willard Frost's face searched through his glasses.
Robert Milburn's answer was a Shrug, and a long cloud Of smoke blown back at the glowing end of his cigar.
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The Castaway: Three Great Men Ruined in One Year--a King, a Cad, and a Castaway
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Hallie Erminie Rives was a best-selling popular novelist and wife of the American diplomat Post Wheeler.
Background
Hallie Erminie Rives was born on May 2, 1876 at Post Oak Plantation, Christian County, Kentucky, the daughter of Colonel Stephen T. Rives and Mary Ragsdale. Her father, a well-to-do tobacco farmer who had served under General Robert E. Lee, was wounded in the battle of Antietam and confined in a Union prison for two years. Named for the heroine of the popular song "Listen to the Mockingbird, " Hallie was tutored privately.
Career
At the age of fifteen she decided to be a writer after surreptitiously reading the controversial novel The Quick or the Dead? by Amélie Rives, her father's first cousin. A year later a short story, "The Treasure of a Feud, " based on a Civil War incident told to her by her father, won a prize in a magazine contest.
Her first novel, Smoking Flax (1897), a sensational story based on an actual lynching, was written when she was only seventeen. Now determined on a writing career, Rives moved to New York to read and study writing and style, beginning with recent best-sellers. Her second novel, A Furnance of Earth (1900), a passionate love story, received mixed reviews. It was published by the Camelot Co. , organized by the writer and diplomat Post Wheeler for that express purpose. Hearts Courageous (1902), a historical romance about Revolutionary Virginia and the Declaration of Independence, had as its central character Patrick Henry, a childhood hero.
Rives finished the novel in six weeks; the title came to her in a dream the night she completed the book. The book was also published in Braille and was later dramatized. Her next novel, The Castaway (1904), was a romantic treatment of the life of Lord Byron. She followed it with another successful novel, Satan Sanderson (1907), a melodramatic tale of mistaken identity involving a popular minister who in his youth had sown wild oats. It was a bestseller and the source of both a successfull Broadway play and a screen production.
The Kingdom of Slender Swords (1910), also a best-seller, was a romantic tale with luxuriant Japanese settings, florid language, and a villain who predicted atomic warfare. With a preface written by the Japanese minister of education, Baron Makino, it was one of the first Western novels to be translated into Japanese. Valiants of Virginia (1912) was a sentimental love story with a hero who discovered a new and rewarding life in rural Virginia on an estate inherited after his father's corporation failed.
Filled with such dramatic events as a duel and a clock striking thirteen, the novel was also dramatized and made into a movie. A temperance theme and prison settings characterized The Long Lane's Turning (1917), which was serialized in Red Book with the title "The Heart of a Man" and made into a movie. The Magic Man (1927), a love story having a hero who suffered amnesia and a scientist who experimented with atomic devices as well as re-creation of a human soul, also was made into a movie. The Golden Barrier (1934) described the effects of the Great Depression on the wealthy. Other Rives books include Complete Book of Etiquette (1926; 1934), The Modern and Complete Book of Etiquette (1939), and John Book (1947).
The Wheelers lived in such great cities as Rome, St. Petersburg, London, and Rio de Janeiro, but also in Paraguay (1929 - 1933) and Albania (1933 - 1934), where Post Wheeler was United States minister.
In their joint autobiography, Dome of Many-Coloured Glass (1955), the Wheelers wrote alternate chapters, describing the political and social background in the foreign service, as well as offering lively coverage of local customs and international events and gossip about dignitaries and lesser figures.
The highly personal book charged that the State Department was run by a small, self-serving clique of hypocrites and sycophants. The Wheelers stated that, as critics, they were victims of pettiness, persecution, falsehood, and libel, and were punished with undesirable posts and assignments.
They were close personal friends of such political figures as Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Speaker of the House Joseph G. Cannon. Although now neglected and out of fashion, several of Rives's novels were considered quite daring in their day and caused considerable controversy. The sales of Hearts Courageous were boosted by an aggressive promotional campaign that included personal appearances and publicity stunts. For the most part Rives's writing was characterized by a fast-moving narrative, vivid imagination, unrestrained prose, and shallow personalities. In her autobiography she described writing as "at one time an agony and a delight, " with the "pleasure outweighing the pain. "